The UK’s engineering-based manufacturing industry is gearing up for MACH 2012 – the biggest manufacturing technology exhibition held in Britain. It is the place to see all the latest in terms of machinery equipment and applications that enable modern manufacturing to take place.
Over 20,000 visitors will see over 5,000 tonnes of working machinery exhibited by some 400 companies. The huge show runs April 16-20. This report takes a look the machine tools market and investigates the offerings of MACH 2012 Supplement some of the companies that will be showcasing at the event.
Idhammar Implementing OEE Systems The last 10 years have charted a steady rise in the level of interest that senior manufacturing managers pay to organisational asset management.
This trend coincides with the increase in asset cost and complexity, especially of plant equipment, making it even more important to manage assets well. Not surprisingly, in response to these trends, top management has been demanding greater visibility of asset health, better control of costs, and improved asset effectiveness. As a consequence there has been a corresponding increase in the popularity of measuring Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).
Published March 2011
The Secretary of State for Education commissioned Professor Alison Wolf of King’s College London to carry out an independent review of vocational education.
She was asked to consider how vocational education for 14- to 19-year-olds can be improved in order to promote successful progression into the labour market and into higher level education and training routes. She was also asked to provide practical recommendations to help inform future policy direction, taking into account current financial constraints.
Can manufacturers, especially energy-intensive firms, grow and reduce their carbon emissions? As Canada jettisons the Kyoto Protocol commitments, companies are reviewing their green commitments with even greater scrutiny.
While to some it might seem like a mutually exclusive ambition, manufacturers’ organisation EEF says that companies can not only achieve growth with sound green principles but that the two are inseparable in the modern global economy.
This report, published on December 13, explores viable and green manufacturing growth in detail.
The recent history of manufacturing IT can be viewed as two overlapping technology waves. The first wave came in the 1990s with the rise of ERP (enterprise resource planning), as companies worked to increase the efficiency of their operations and better manage the supply chain. Today, product lifecycle management (PLM) is leading a new wave – this one focused as much on accelerating innovation and supporting global collaboration as it is on driving process efficiencies to improve business performance.
When ERP and PLM solutions are delivering maximum value, they help companies develop the best products possible and deliver them to their customers efficiently. But how do you ensure that ERP and PLM are delivering maximum value? And which of these two enterprise solutions is better suited to address which challenges?
The Manufacturer magazine in conjunction with Barclays Corporate have released the 2011 Annual Manufacturing Report (AMR). The AMR reports on the findings of this year’s research in the areas of Economy, Government Policy, and Finance, Purchasing, Procurement and Logistics. Alongside the data, the report features expert analysis from: Barry Evans, Senior Research Associate in Lean Enterprise Research Centre (Cardiff Business School); and Mark Lee, Head of Manufacturing Transport and Logistics, Barclays Corporate.
Business analytics can help SMBs be more efficient, effective and profitable. But TechWeb’s new research shows that there’s a perception gap in understanding the business analytics’ benefits and the availability of solutions that can be adopted easily and affordably.
A primary challenge for many food manufacturing and distribution firms involves the effective implementation and use of an ERP system for managing the business. Columbus has gathered the valuable experiences and best advice of customers and experts in 3 topical guides. The third and final guide focuses on how to improve quality control & food safety.
Don’t miss the other guides on ‘How to improve operational efficiency and supply chain collaboration’, and ‘How to improve business visibility & performance’.
Columbus has gathered the valuable experiences and best advice of customers and experts in 3 topical guides. In this one, we discuss how to overcome the challenges to help you improve business visibility and performance, including:
- How to determine where business profits are gained and lost
- How to manage business performance through business intelligence, data mining, analytics and KPI monitoring
- How to merge critical information from the food ecosystem
A primary challenge for many food manufacturing and distribution firms involves the effective implementation and use of an ERP system for managing the business.
The business processes require unique software functionality related to the key issues in the food industry, as described in this series of ‘how to’ guides.
Columbus has gathered the experiences and best advice of customers and experts in this guide and answers these challenges:
- How to manage perishable goods.
- How to minimise production interruptions.
- How to reduce manual and double registrations.
- How to improve visibility, control and planning.
- How to optimise collaboration within the organisation and with trade partners.
- How to manage multiple manufacturing sites and processes.
- How to gain control of products with multiple units of measure.
