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The TPM Excellence Awards process is now open until the end of January 2015 for the 2015 awards. To apply for an award download the 2015 Application Outline and the 2015 Application Form. If you would like to speak to someone about applying for the Excellence Awards please contact the TPM Assessment office +44 (0)121 717 6619 or email… Read more »

The IATF has established a work team consisting of IATF member organizations to develop a design specification for the revision of ISO/TS 16949 to align with the ISO 9001:2015 based structure and requirements. For further information please visit the IATF website – http://www.iatfglobaloversight.org/

  The big, the small, the innovative and the straight up efficient. All of these manufacturers and more have been included in The Manufacturer of the Year Awards 2014 shortlist officially released today (11th September 2014). Entries for this year’s awards came from far and wide with shortlisted businesses as diverse as cosmetic production through to aircraft… Read more »

On the 5th August Paul Hardiman, Principal Global Best Practice, in conjunction with Industry Forum’s training partner Neville Clarke, delivered a workshop to an audience in Malaysia. The delegates, from a wide range of automotive suppliers, gained an update on the ISO/TS16949 scheme, the future developments of management system standards and the areas of ISO/TS16949… Read more »

Industry Forum is delighted to sponsor The Manufacturer of the Year Awards 2014, which offers manufacturers from across the UK the opportunity to showcase their achievements across 14 different award categories. As principal sponsor for the Supply Chain Excellence category, Industry Forum is partnering with the awards to reward and recognise the UK’s best and… Read more »

Business improvement solutions provider SMMT Industry Forum is partnering up with  the JCB Academy on an exciting engineering challenge for students. Taking place at Industry Forum’s Birmingham offices on Tuesday 8 April, the Automotive Challenge will see 36 JCB Academy students design, build and launch a 1:6 scale vehicle made from a selected range of… Read more »

Paul Hardiman from SMMT Industry Forum was invited to speak at the JIPM TPM awards ceremony in Japan on the 13th March 2014. Paul, representing SMMT IF as one of the 6 JIPM Associate Agencies, was the only non-Japanese TPM Assessor present at the awards. He was invited on stage with the other 24 Japanese… Read more »

Are you looking to grow your business? Do you want to identify key improvement areas of your business before your customers do? Are you aware that some leading vehicle manufacturers mandate MMOG-LE on their suppliers? Find out the implication of MMOG-LE on your business What is MMOG-LE? The Materials Management Operations Guideline/Logistics Evaluation (MMOG/LE) defines… Read more »

Industry Forum Chief Executive Dr Chris Owen was invited as guest speaker to the the QAD EMEA Customer Conference where he spoke about Change Management and the common issues that were faced with implementing a change programme. The customer conference, which was situated in the stunning Weston Park country house, allowed existing QAD customers to… Read more »

SMMT Industry Forum is proud to have been selected as one of the delivery partners for the innovative and ambitious Sharing in Growth programmes in the Aerospace and Civil Nuclear sectors. Both of these programmes will raise the capability of progressive UK Aerospace and Civil Nuclear suppliers so that they can take full advantage of… Read more »