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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Manufacturing business software giant Infor has today (25 October 2012) announced the availability of Infor EAM Mobile, an enterprise asset management application for the Apple iPad.
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Atlas Copco has launched a mobile app for site-wide remote monitoring of compressor systems.
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A metal components manufacture has been fined £16,500 after a grinding wheel smashed through an inadequately trained agency worker's visor and left a piece of bone touching his brain.
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Super yacht equipment manufacturer Cooney Marine will showcase its continuous improvement programme at the WM Manufacturing Conference (WMMC) on 14-15 November.
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Car maker Bentley has boosted picking efficiency and improved inventory control with an automated storage and retrieval system at its Crewe manufacturing plant.
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Hi-Tech Mouldings of Waterlooville, Hants, has been shortlisted to become a national champion for the UK in the European Business Awards.
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Top industrialists will reveal the secrets of world-class manufacturing as a prelude to the Best Factory Awards, taking place later this month in London.
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