Maintenance regimes are being blighted by an overreliance on acronyms and tick box exercises, the WM Maintenance Conference has heard.
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SABIC's chemical plant on Teeside is reporting £10 million a year in productivity gains, thanks to an improvement programme that has transformed equipment effiency and workforce engagement.
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Rockwell Automation has announced a series of summer dates for its Automation University EDGE series, which provides business improvement advice for senior engineers and manufacturing managers.
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'Process Safebook 1: Functional Safety in the Process Industry' is a new free publication from Rockwell Automation that explains the principles and standards around achieving safety in process applications.
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British Sugar's plant in Wissington, Norfolk – Europe's largest sugar refinery – is reporting a ful 40% cost reduction on tools and production consumables since moving to Buck & Hickman's stock management service.
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As the HSE continues to clamps down on inspection and maintenance dodgers, industry is being warned to think twice before delaying inspections and maintenance of forklift trucks.
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David Manning-Ohren of Eriks, Paul Sacker of Crimson Industrial Vision, ex-Nissan maintenance manager Dave Peart, Andy Bates of Artesis, and Trevor Holroyd and Cristiano Garau from Kittiwake Holroyd have all confirmed as expert panellists for the condition monitoring technology session at next month's WM Maintenance Conference.
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Global manufacturers, including Heineken, PepsiCo and Siemens, have agreed to share their experiences in turning maintenance from a cost centre to a profit generating activity at the upcoming WM Maintenance Conference.
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Birds Eye has extended its logistics partnership with Norbert Dentressangle to include the storage and supply of packaging and ambient raw materials, along with on-site shunting operations into the manufacturer's award-winning manufacturing complex in Lowestoft.
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Maintenance experts at global manufacturing giants including Heineken, PepsiCo and Siemens will be revealing the secrets of banishing downtime at WM's Maintenence Conference this June.
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Works Management has launched a new conference aimed at putting your maintenance team at the heart of your lean and CI programmes.
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Hitchin-based manufacturer Hermitage Sheet Metal has become one of the smallest engineering companies in the UK to secure a silver World Class Supply Chains for the 21st Century Award (SC21).
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Britain's manufacturers are calling for government to prioritise investment in roads, act faster on increasing airport capacity and take the politics out of transport infrastructure by setting up an independent commission.
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Westmill Foods has awarded Potter Logistics a £1m contract to handle raw materials for its rice milling and packaging facility in Selby, Yorkshire. The two-year deal includes handling, warehousing and transportation of bulk and bagged rice.
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AWE, which manufactures and maintains the warheads for the UK's nuclear deterrent Trident submarine-launched, ballistic nuclear missile weapons systems, has upgraded its maintenance system to the latest release of Infor EAM.
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The winners of the 2012 Best Factory Awards will reunite at the Best Factory Conference in Kenilworth next month (19-20 March), to share with others in the industry how they transformed their factories into showcases of lean excellence with empowered workforces and high-performance processes.
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The Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) is urging English manufacturers to "go for growth" in 2013 and has released a ten-point action plan which it claims will help them become more efficient, reduce waste and increase sales.
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Car manufacturer Honda has pleaded guilty to breaching health and safety regulations after a worker lost two fingers at its Swindon plant.
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Coatings and speciality products supplier PPG Industries has renewed its long-term supply chain contract with Norbert Dentressangle.
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Cambridge instrument firm Prior Scientific Instruments and a health and safety consultant have both been fined for failing to protect employees from hazardous chemicals.
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Egg and dessert distributor Noble Foods has improved efficiency, decreased manual handling and reduced product damage with a fleet of pallet trucks which can be charged on-board its delivery vehicles.
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Underlay and flooring manufacturer Interfloor has outsourced transport of goods from its two production sites to retailers around the UK, with a three-year contract awarded to logistics business Norbert Dentressangle.
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Automotive product manufacturer Brose has signed a new three-year deal with Gefco for the transport of seat frames from its Coventry facility to a customer site in Redditch.
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Auto ID (automatic identification) technology is set to go far beyond barcodes and RFID, as new industrial automation models swell the requirement for active data collection.
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Idhammar Systems has launched an energy monitor that provides live information on a plant's Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) performance.
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