factory floor

Ratan Tata was sent to a company steel plant in Jamshedpur in eastern India where he spent a couple of years on the factory floor before becoming the technical assistant to the manager.

Mr McEvoy shows me around the factory floor at the firm’s Portadown site, where workers are busy riveting aluminium seat parts together, and checking the complex wiring for the entertainment systems in these expensive structures – each seat costs “tens of thousands” to make, says Mr McEvoy.

Mr Murray is determined to boost the rate of production on this factory floor.

On the factory floor at Fidelity, amid the whir of the presses, it’s striking how handmade the final product is.

The old plant CEO was replaced with a new one who walks the factory floor and listens to workers, she said.