Get lean and get profitable
Global competition, rising prices, skills shortages and customer demand for lower costs are all key challenges facing food manufacturers in 2007. The way to meet this pressure and to maintain bottom line profitability is to improve efficiency and raise productivity.
But too often companies who have successfully improved their efficiency and cut costs are reluctant to tell their secrets. Now Food Manufacture has persuaded a number of food producers and equipment suppliers to talk.
They will be speaking on March 8 at Food Manufacture 2007, a one-day conference at the Crown Plaza, Birmingham NEC, about applying lean manufacturing techniques, low-cost automation, and cutting energy costs.
Allied Bakeries, Brakes Manufacturing, Cadbury Schweppes and Greencore will explain how they have benefited from adopting lean manufacturing techniques to maximise operational efficiency.
The Carbon Trust and Audits Unlimited will make a sound business case for linking efforts to reduce a company's carbon footprint with real reductions in energy bills and landfill costs.
And automation suppliers RTS Flexible Systems and ABB will give examples and case histories of how automation and robotics have helped food manufacturers improve profitability.
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