Spaces running out at MCS Best of British conference
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The free MCS Best of British Manufacturers conference – the event due to give ‘warts and all’ accounts of how award-winning companies achieved business, engineering and production transformations through new IT – is already almost full, with registrations exceeding expectations. Brian Tinham reports
The free MCS Best of British Manufacturers conference – the event due to give ‘warts and all’ accounts of how award-winning companies achieved business, engineering and production transformations through new IT – is already almost full, with registrations exceeding expectations.
Manufacturers presenting include: Red Bull Racing (formerly Jaguar Racing), Cosworth, the recently renamed Honda Racing F1 Team (formerly BAR Honda), Deltron-Emcon, Diageo, Moss Plastic Parts, Bendalls Engineering, Fairline Boats, James Walker, Cash Bases and Schefenacker.
They join foils and laminates manufacturer API, engineering specialist Dewhurst, automotive supply firm Johnson Controls, seafood producer Cromer Crabs and George Adams the national sausage and meat pies producer.
The event, which is taking place at the Heritage Motor Museum near Coventry, West Midlands on 25 January 2006, is aimed at operations directors, supply chain directors, engineering and design directors, heads of site and IT directors and managers.
Industrial IT guru and former director of the Manufacturing Leaders Programme at the University of Cambridge Institute for Manufacturing, Philip Hanson, is to chair one of the streams. Goldratt TOC (Theory of Constraints) specialist John Tripp will chair another. Chris McKellen, former operations and business improvement director at Allied Signal in Shanghai, will chair the third. And Brian Tinham, Editor of Manufacturing Computer Solutions, will chair the fourth.
Many of the presenting firms are winners of the prestigious Manufacturing Computer Solutions Best of British Manufacturing and IT awards, presented for best business transformation. All are independently judged.
Delegates can expect to hear ‘warts and all’ accounts of how these world-class companies have made the grade, through best processes and enabling IT.
Sponsors of this free event now include: Access Supply Chain, Cognos, Epicor, Exel Computer Systems, IBM, IFS, IMS, Infor, McGuffie Brunton, Microsoft, Preactor, QAD, Sage, SAP and SSI.
Attendance is free by invitation, but numbers are strictly limited. For further information and to book your place contact Kerry Wilkins on kwilkins@findlay.co.uk or call her on 01322 221144
