Episode number 1 of Series “Keys to Metrication”.
The success of metrication depends on careful planning to keep companies in step with their suppliers and customers, and to keep company departments in step with one another. How to start and organise the changeover, aspects of phasing, control and costs, staff familiarisation and training; the importance of timing and of using the opportunity for rationalisation which metrication offers to large and small concerns.
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005858
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English
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Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Industrial management
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Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Rationalism - Economic aspects
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Employees - Training of
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Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Management - Study and teaching
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Sound
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Colour
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16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)