It is one of those stories that sends shivers down the back that causes sleepless nights and maybe even the gain of a few pounds for us old timers in the dimensional gauging business. We ship a gauge that we know is looking great. It designed to be use on the shop floor, passed all the calibration and repeat testing that specifies for the application. A little while after it gets into the user’s facility and then the call comes.
Comment: The UK is closer to deindustrialisation than reindustrialisation
"..have been years in the making" and are embedded in the actors - thus making it difficult for UK industry to move on and develop and apply...