Sometimes it feels like you need to be a superhero to run a modern manufacturing site. Reacting to lightning quick lead time demands, using your X-ray vision to spot miniscule quality defects and digging deep to save the day in the face of some seemingly impossible production schedule.
Unfortunately Works Management hasn’t cracked Superman’s genome just yet, but we are bringing you the brand new Manufacturing Management Show the closest worldly thing to a shot of superpowers.
The Manufacturing Management Show, which will take place on 23-24 November next year, offers you everything you need to know about running a successful manufacturing site in a single, convenient location. A one stop shop for business boosting insight on maintenance, continuous improvement, employment law, ERP, materials handling and energy to name but a few.
The show unites an exhibition from leading factory equipment suppliers with a keynote conference and hands-on workshops rich in best practice advice.
This is a show for manufacturing managers cast in their own image: multi-faceted, innovative and mightily efficient. In the past if you wanted to check out the latest materials handling, health and safety or maintenance kit then you would have to attend a bespoke trade show. A day spent off site for each area, a day travelling, then a day to catch up on things when you returned to the factory. The Manufacturing Management Show is our kaizen moment for such unnecessary manufacturing muda.
We know your time is precious, that wanton inefficiency is your own kryptonite. So we bring you the only show that caters for the multifaceted business challenges facing you, the factory manager and your team. New kit, best practice learning, networking? all available in one hit. The Manufacturing Management show follows the lean manufacturing mantra of maximum efficiency: minimum waste.
A concentrated dose of best practice
“The beauty of this new show is you’re going to get a concentrated hit on all aspects of running a manufacturing site,” reflects Colin Boughton, European operations director at Fujifilm- manufacturer of digital and analogue inks systems. “We go to specialist shows on packaging or materials handling, but you’re spending a whole day or two to look at one aspect of the job. The MMS show is an incredibly efficient way of spending your time – in manufacturing terms it’s very lean.”
Works Management is delighted to announce three headline sponsors for the Manufacturing Management Show; forklift truck specialist, Toyota Material Handling; RS Components and MRO and tools, maintenance and health and safety products supplier; Brammer and Buck & Hickman.
The show provided the perfect forum to discuss the scope for supplier’s to offer added value support to manufacuring customer said Tony Wallis, commercial director at Toyota Materials Handling UK. “With the breadth of management responsibility, the Manufacturing Management Show will provide managers with the opportunity to meet companies who can support them in materials handling, health and safety and maintenance. A wide range of innovative solutions at one time, in one place. We believe it will provide a great opportunity for Toyota Material Handling to display our trucks, but also talk to managers about how we can support them.”
A show you wanted to see
This is a show that comes with a mandate. Independent marketing research among nearly 150 manufacturing decision makers showed an overwhelming 71% felt there was a need for a multi-topic manufacturing show like this. The same manufacturing decision makers also said a lack of time was the biggest barrier to them attending industry events.
The Manufacturing Management Show bridges the gap. Satisfying the thirst for an all-encompassing show, but delivering it in a time friendly format. Close your eyes and picture how the show might flow for you as a visitor next November.
Pick up a latte on arrival and peruse the latest productivity enhancing plant as you chat with leading suppliers in our exhibition hall. The 4,000m2 Jaguar exhibition hall will be a hive of high-tech equipment and service sthat hold the key to a slicker shopfloor. The expo will bring together a wealth of different equipment and services from fork lift trucks and PPE to manufacturing IT and maintenance consultancy services.
Next sit in on a conference session and discover the blueprint to winning new export business in Belize. Our keynote conference programme will bring together manufacturing leaders to discuss key strategic and operational challenges facing UK manufacturing. Topics include industry 4.0, outsmarting skills shortages, leadership, winning over change resistant workforces, going zero landfill, export growth and making safety everybody’s business. You’ll have the chance to hear how the best do it.
The conference offers a perfect forum for that spark of genius says Trevor Newman, supply chain operations director at Coca-Cola, Sidcup. “There is no such thing as a perfect factory. We can think we’re doing something really well but you can go to conference and hear from someone else and you’re always going to learn something.”
That sharing of best practice is also the theme at the show’s workshop sessions. Here you will access hands-on advice on topics such as boosting forklift safety or delivering a pro-active maintenance strategy from leading suppliers.
The workshop and conference sessions will look to maximise peer to peer networking opportunties. Weaims to give you the opportunity to pinch with pride from business leaders who have overcome common frontline factory issues like sustaining 5S, engaging employees or banishing lost time accidents.
Nirvana for any aspiring manager, says Chris Greenogh, director of Salop Design & Engineering. “I want to go to a show and look around and see what’s happening in manufacturing. But I want to make connections. I want to come away and say I can contact these people whether they are a potential supplier or customer.”
So after checking out the show’s many features, you will head out into the chill of a November night with a warming layer of new contacts, equipment leads and improvement ideas. A haul you couldn’t get near even on the most productive day back at the plant.
Of course there will be those who say it cannot be done. That such a treasure trove is the stuff of comic book fiction. Well, originality is bound to bring the hackles up among those who think in terms of ‘we’ve always done it that way’. But we know this is a show that will secure the buy-in of all you enlightened manufacturing managers out there.
We look forward to welcoming you and your management team to the Ricoh arena to see for yourself next November. Register for your free places now at
