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DTI AWARDS ROLLS-ROYCE £17.3M FOR RESEARCH PROGRAMME
"Announcing £17.3 million in DTI funding for a new civil aerospace research programme for Rolls-Royce in Derby, Industry Minister Jacqui Smith hailed innovation as 'crucial to a sustainable manufacturing base for the UK.'"
"Visiting the Derby plant, Ms Jacqui Smith announced that the cash will fund various research projects exploring new technologies and testing out the latest in scientific innovation.<BR> The new programme, called ATAP-10, will draw on £38.8 million in funding
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MOD SUPPORTS ISO 9001:2000 FOR SUPPLIER CONTRACTS
"Suppliers to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) should update to the ISO 9001:2000 quality management standard by 15 December 2003 to be considered 'appropriate' under its Appropriate Certification policy, says BSI Management Systems recently. "
"After the deadline those companies who reply to MoD invitations to tender without ISO 9001:2000 will be disadvantaged when compared to those who have transferred. <BR> Because the MoD's specifications draw substantially from the ISO 9001:2000 standard, comp
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"MAS HELPS COMPANIES ADD &POUND;90,000 VALUE PER YEAR"
"The Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) East Midlands, which is delivered by Pera, has proved to be a tremendous success during its first 16 months, with companies fully engaging with the service adding value of on average £90,000 per year."
"A recent independent customer survey provides clear and compelling evidence that the MAS is highly valued, with 83% of respondents saying they would recommend it to other businesses.<BR> This high degree of confidence in the service is further refl
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NEW FAMILY OF HERMETIC UTIMETERS
"At the end of September a group of representatives from TS Tanksystem's worldwide network of service stations met at Tanksystem's headquarters in Bulle, Switzerland for a week long training course on the presentation, application and maintenance of the HERMetic portable tank gauging and tank contents sampling equipment."
"The objective of the course was to provide service station representatives with detailed technical knowledge of the HERMetic products and thus to ensure that TS Tanksystem's worldwide
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KELLY'S - MULTIMEDIA BUSINESS 2 BUSINESS SOLUTIONS
"First established back in 1799, and published annually ever since, Kelly's has become synonymous with high-quality Industrial Product and Service information. "
"The new Kelly's product range builds on this success, offering comprehensive data and a powerful advertising medium. All advertisers gain maximum exposure by appearing in Kelly's, from traditional directories through to new electronic media - and more specifically the new search engine for industry, kellysearch.com. The Kelly's Industrial
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INDUSTRIAL POLICIES IN THE DOCK
A damning report published recently by the left-leaning Institute of Public Policy Research has called into question this central tenet of government policy by suggesting that the UK's long-suffering manufacturing sector does not deserve special treatment.
"For most Labour politicians, it is a self-evident truth that manufacturing matters. But a damning report published recently by the left-leaning Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) has called into question this central tenet of government policy by sugges
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LESSON IN CUTTING PRODUCTION COSTS
"Businesses can discover how to slash production costs at a Manufacturing Masterclass at Manchester's Manufacturing Institute on Tuesday, 23 September."
"<BR> 'TPM - Maximising Manufacturing Performance' is the title of the one-day seminar, which will demonstrate how to use Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) to ensure a greater return on manufacturing assets and improve plant productivity.<BR> Senior managers and shop floor workers from Corus, Unilever Best Foods, Nichols Foods, BNFL Westingh
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SCOTTISH MANUFACTURING SECTOR CRIPPLED BY RED TAPE
Disturbing figures showing the effects of the Exchequer's imposition of red tape on the besieged Scottish manufacturing sector have been revealed by the Liberal Democrat spokesman on Scottish Affairs John Thurso.
"Having initially uncovered figures from the House of Commons Library showing that at least 100,800 jobs had haemorrhaged from Scottish manufacturing since 1998, and that the number of manufacturing companies in Scotland had fallen to only 8,300, Mr Thurso set up a survey to discover why the sector found
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ONE THIRD OF YORKSHIRE AND HUMBER MANUFACTURERS NEED TO REVIEW COSTS
"The world's economy is developing at an extraordinary pace, but reading this research shows that this revolution could leave many of our companies behind. Businesses across the globe are seizing opportunities, while we at times rely on almost an old boys' network"" of suppliers and customers who, whilst loyal, do not deliver the profit they need."""
"Up to one third of manufacturers from the Yorkshire, Humber region need to urgently review their production costs if they are to be abl
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SPOTLIGHT ON MANUFACTURING AT ARDEN HOUSE CONFERENCE
"Achieving new standards of manufacturing excellence through greater understanding of the manufacturing processes was the theme of the eighth Arden House European Conference, held jointly by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and the American Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences, at the Society's headquarters recently."
"The conference, which attracted over 130 attendees from the UK, Europe, Japan and the USA, featured, for the first time, video links to key sites in the USA, with presentati
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Supposedly the construction
materials of the future, composites are increasingly seen in
applications where optimum efficiency is paramount including
aircraft construction and renewable energy. As two research
examples show in this video, composites really are the future
for efficiency.
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