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Click here for further information on sponsorship opportunities for 2008
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Autodesk
Sponsor of the Innovation Award
In Manufacturing, Autodesk helps customers experience their ideas before they're real by providing state-of-the-art, interoperable, 2D and 3D model-based design technologies that are redefining the product development process. With Digital Prototyping, manufacturers can optimize and validate their ideas before actually creating a product, helping to remove time and costs from the product development process, and get the "right" product to market faster.
Autodesk is a world leader in digital design innovation technologies. Our products, services, and solutions help customers design better by enabling them to create digital models and workflows, which allow them to experience their ideas before they are real.
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DAK Consulting
Sponsor of the Best Household & General Products Plant Award
DAK are a global operations management consultancy helping organisations to secure year on year improvement in performance as a core business process.
Our support ranges from specific improvements goals to multi site, operational transformation programmes. Core competencies include Lead Team development, Operational Excellence (LeanTPM), Change Management, Innovation and Project Management.
We work with your people to
1. Raise productivity, quality and delivery performance,
2.Improve equipment and process effectiveness,
3. Increase margins, growth and the pace of innovation;
4. Establish systems and ways of working to transform culture and behaviours;
5. Comply with legislation/best practice
6. Develop winning products and services
7. Deliver strategic goals
Current and recent customers include 3M, BPB, Danfoss, Dow Corning, Johnson Matthey, RHM, Scottish & Newcastle, SSAB, Tryton Foods. DAK have also supported over 20 organisations on behalf of the UK government funded Lean Learning Academy and provided master class coaching for MAS Lean Practitioners.
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Grant Thornton
Sponsor of the Best Small Company Award
Grant Thornton is sponsoring the Best Small Company Awards in BFA 2008. Grant Thornton UK LLP is a leading business and financial adviser. Led by over 300 partners and employing more than 4,400 of the profession's brightest minds, we provide personalised assurance, tax and specialists advisory services.
Our market-facing business units are supported by relevant sector specialists who share their expertise and insight across our firm. Our dedicated team has had significant involvement with the industry, offering access to comprehensive regional coverage, coordinated throughout the UK by our national Manufacturing Team.
Grant Thornton
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National Skills Academy
Sponsor of the Skills Development Award
The National Skills Academy for Manufacturing is sponsoring the new award for Skills Development in BFA 2008. The National Skills Academy for Manufacturing is a central part of the government's skills strategy. The Academy will focus on meeting the skills needs of both large and small employers from the manufacturing sector, including Aerospace, Automotive, Electronics and Marine. In the longer term, it will also incorporate science and technology sub-sectors such as the Biological and Medical Sciences, and Bio- and Nano-technology.
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Siemens
Sponsor of the Energy/Environment Award
Siemens Automation & Drives recognises the important of ensuring that UK manufacturing maintains its global competitiveness through a continuous process of productivity improvement. As a global leader in automation and drive technology we work closely with companies across the world to improve the efficiency of operations, reduce operational costs and improve production flexibility.
Siemens Industry Automation & Drive Technologies operates in 190 countries across the world supporting many of the most influential manufacturing companies in achieving their business goals. In the UK Siemens fully supports and applauds the best practice in manufacturing highlighted by the Best Factory Awards and is delighted to support the Energy / Environment category.
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SOE IPlantE
Sponsor of the Best Process Plant Award
The IPlantE (Institution of Plant Engineers) was founded in 1946 and is the professional sector of the SOE (Society of Operations Engineers), representing engineers and technicians involved in the specification, installation, operation and maintenance of industrial plant and equipment.
SOE IPlantE members come from a huge range of engineering sectors, including process, general manufacturing, the utilities, transportation, construction, commercial buildings and the armed forces. SOE IPlantE welcomes into memebership everyone involved with engineering-related activities, from static and rotating plant in industrial installations to mobile plant of all kinds, power generation and distribution and production machinery, including maintenance and repair.
One of the primary aims of SOE is to help its members develop, so membership classes reflect achievements at each stage of engineers' professional careers. They also reflect the Society's inclusive ethos, ranging from Associate Member to Fellow, and recognise the broad and uniquely multi-disciplinary nature of plant engineering.
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TBM
Sponsor of the Most Improved Plant Award
TBM Consulting Group is sponsoring the Most Improved category in BFA 2008. Improving business performance - and translating it into sales and earnings growth
by increasing customer satisfaction - is TBM's total client focus. Its heritage in Lean manufacturing and fundamentals learned from Toyota Production System pioneers has evolved into time-based LeanSigma principles that it teaches and implements for discrete manufacturers, process companies and service firms worldwide. Kaizen Breakthrough events and sustained culture change are critical to achieving operational excellence, the first stage in TBM's game-changing LeanSigma growth strategy
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Toyota Material Handling
Sponsor of the Supply Chain Award
Toyota Material Handling UK is sponsoring the Supply Chain Award in BFA 2008. Toyota Material Handling UK combines the strengths of the highly successful Toyota and BT organisations and serves customers better by improving the range and quality of products and services available.
The bringing together of the Toyota and BT brands through a combined operation enables us to provide its customers with the best possible service throughout the UK.
A comprehensive range of counterbalance forklifts, warehouse equipment and supporting services are supplied throughout the UK direct from Toyota Material Handling and supplemented by a dedicated, strategically positioned dealer network.
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Unite the Union
Sponsor of the Health & Safety Award
Unite the Union is sponsoring the Health and Safety Award in BFA 2008. Unite the Union is the 'union for life,' throughout members' working lives - whatever their job and whoever their employer. Based on the principles of individual and collective responsibility, Unite the Union is dedicated to improving its members' standard of living and quality of life in both the public and private sectors reflecting the changing world of work, supporting workers through a programme of campaigning and organising.
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