Improving Productivity: How Real-Time Operations Management Can Transform Manufacturing - 6 May

6 May 2020
12.00 - 12.45 - Free Webinar 

Pressure is intensifying on plastics processors and their suppliers to be ever more agile, responsive and lean. Stricter quality and compliance standards; customers increasingly demanding greater customisation; and sustainability are just some of the issues facing processors.

Proximity’s Tom Grigg and Nick Jackson will present how the plastics sector has now actually entered an ‘Industry Renaissance’ where small and mid-market processors and suppliers can – and should - flourish within more efficient, agile and resilient supply chains. At the heart of this ecosystem are software platforms, centered on human roles and collaboration, rather than purely driven by machines.

These platforms bring real-time and event-driven collaboration to:
● Manage the very heart of the business: the shop floor: the rate of production, the cost of production, the actual availability of finished goods
● Adapt faster to technology and demand changes through better integration with engineering
● Ensure financial control and provide operational visibility
● Improve decision making across the entire business
● Promote ‘knowledge workers’ rather than AI-driven businesses
● Attract more young people to the sector to bridge the skills gap
● And, ultimately, grow faster than competitors.

Tom and Nick will also show Case Studies of processors who are using these manufacturing software platforms to stay ahead, including: Nordell, Worthing, UK and Trend Technologies, Mullingar, Ireland

Please be aware that this is a BPF members exclusive webinar and only members of the BPF will have access to the recording of the webinar.