my colleague ben thompson has been out and about in devon looking at how we could be working smarter to boost economic output. welcome to devon. we are talking about how the uk can solve what is known as the productivity puzzle. how do we get businesses here to be more productive without simply asking workers to do a bit more, work order? it is about getting them to work a bit smarter, too. this is exactly what they have been doing at this plant. barry is the boss, good morning. how do you improve productivity? we are surrounded by a lot of people here, but also machines. is it about buying robots to do the job? buying robots helps, but it takes time. it is about doing things differently. automation, robot loading is one thing. new software programming, as you have seen on some software programming, as you have seen on some of the bigger machines, reduces cycle time. it's about, how do we do things quicker? rather than all of that time being used up doing relatively mundane tasks like loading machines, you can now deploy the staff to do betterjobs that will add more value to the busi