IBM PLM joins Best of British 2006 conference

IBM has announced that it is putting its considerable weight behind the upcoming 2006 MCS manufacturing business IT conference on 25 January at the Heritage Motor Museum in the Midlands – making its PLM (product lifecycle management) engineering software and expertise available to delegates. Stream leaders for the event are: Goldratt TOC (Theory of Constraints) specialist John Tripp; industrial IT guru and former director of the University of Cambridge Institute for Manufacturing, Philip Hanson; Chris McKellen, former operations and business improvement director at Allied Signal in Shanghai; and Brian Tinham, Editor of Manufacturing Computer Solutions. Manufacturers presenting how they achieved award-winning business transformations through re-engineered business processes and new IT include: Red Bull Racing (formerly Jaguar Racing), Cosworth, 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. Other manufacturers are foils and laminates manufacturer API, engineering specialist Dewhurst, automotive supply firm Johnson Controls, seafood producer Cromer Crabs and Blakemans the sausage maker. The one-day event is streamed, covering automotive, automotive supply, parts & components, process, project engineering, electronics/high tech, electro-mechanical engineering and configure-to-order operations. It is aimed at operations directors, supply chain directors, heads of site and IT directors and managers. 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, Infor, IFS, IMS, McGuffie Brunton, Microsoft Dynamics, 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.