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Welcome to my blog, which I hope you'll find to be an interesting mixture of real-world experience, ideas, comments and observations.
Tom Gaskell
I've worked in industry as a consultant, manager and quality trouble-shooter for most of my career.
After spending 14 years in a multi-national consulting organisation and 10 years working in telecomms design and manufacturing start-ups, I set up the Cambridge (UK)-based quality, manufacturing and business consultancy Primilis (http://www.primilis.com) in 2006.
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How to get 5.1 audio on Sky HD – updated
UPDATED – SEE BELOW! I have just installed a Sky HD system for a colleague and hit a really annoying problem. The Sky HD box puts out stereo digital audio onto its HDMI connector, and provides 5.1 (surround sound) digital … Continue reading
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More ‘Snickers’ than Marathon…
Windsurfing4CancerResearch, Grafham Water 2 May 2010 Gosh that was hard… After a month of lovely warm, dry weather, the day of the Sunrise Sunset event dawned with the thermometer well under 10 degrees C, heavy rain and blustery winds. Lovely! … Continue reading
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Windsurfing 4 Cancer Research
It seemed like a good idea to contribute to the 2010 Windsurfing 4 Cancer Research event, having lost both an uncle and a friend to the disease recently and with a member of the family currently undergoing treatment. And yes … Continue reading
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Is the Hawthorne Effect really just Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle for the common man?
The Hawthorne Effect was first described by psychology researcher Henry Landsberger in the fifties when he analysed work done decades earlier at Western Electric’s Hawthorn Works near Chicago. Western Electric ran a study to see if its workers would become … Continue reading
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My New Year’s Resolution – give up on Amazon Marketplace
HAPPY NEW YEAR! I hope 2010 brings you peace, happiness and success. I’m not big on resolutions, but one that I am going to make is about dear Amazon and its third party retailing arm, Amazon Marketplace. My recent experience … Continue reading
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Exhibitionist!
My consultancy Primilis has exhibited at a trade show! We were at TechnologyWorld09 in Coventry on 23rd and 24th November. We have attended many shows but this is the first time we had a stand of our own. It was … Continue reading
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Consumer rights
Here’s a terrific little piece from the BBC about consumer rights and how to get redress for poor quality goods and services: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8253915.stm
Quality and Product Insights word cloud
For a bit of fun – we seem to be into the summer holiday ‘silly season’ after all – I put the main page of this blog into the ‘Wordle’** engine; here’s the result: **Wordle generates “word clouds” from text; … Continue reading
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About me
I started as an electronics design engineer, but 14 years in a big technology consulting organisation and 10 years working in telecomms design and manufacturing start-ups enabled me to focus on manufacturing operations and quality of new products, in other words on … Continue reading
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Welcome!
Welcome to this blog which is all about Quality and Product Implementation, in other words how products can be developed and manufactured in a quality way using lightweight but effective business and technical processes to maximise yield, minimise time-to market, and … Continue reading
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