SEPTEMBER 2019
MANUFACTURING MANAGEMENT Incorporating Works Management
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Alarm bells are ringing
6 Round-Up
This month’s biggest stories
10 CI Dilemma
Fighting fi res
13 Opinion
A capital idea
14 Employment Law
Tracey Marsden of CMS explores
the law around lying about
previous convictions on a CV,
cramped working conditions on
the shopfl oor and a culture of
corporate nepotism
Cover Story
16 Salt of the earth
Balancing aging assets in a 50-
year-old site with increasing
customer demand and a volatile
market required the team at British
Salt’s Cheshire factory take some
bold steps to modernise
The Interview
22 Beyond the brochure
Manufacturing Management sat
down with Pete Malpas, managing
director of RS Components
Northern Europe, to discuss
outsourced maintenance, regional
demands and why the company is
now more than just a catalogue
Maintenance
26 Signed, sealed, delivered
Many companies remain unaware
of the potential for signifi cant
energy waste that may be
embedded in their operations
Project Management
28 Joining the scrum
Popular in software development,
the ‘Scrum’ method of agile project
management can translate to
a manufacturing environment
Advanced Manufacturing
30 Go West
As the traditional industrial
heartland of the UK, the West
Midlands is no stranger to
cutting-edge manufacturing.
However, in recent years the region
has seen itself emerge as a global
hotbed of innovation around the
future of transportation
33 IT in Focus
IMHX 2019
38 It’s show time
IMHX 2019 is set to open its
doors to the industry’s biggest
names in late September
National Manufacturing Conference
42 Finding clarity
Make UK’s annual conference will
take place on 25 February 2020
43 Great British Factories
The history of King’s Dyke
brickworks near Peterborough
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