MF appoints Advisory Board

ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, 9 NOVEMBER 2011 - Manufacturing Focus, one of the leading manufacturing and organisational improvement providers in Australia, has appointed an advisory board made up of a diverse group of industry leaders to ensure the company’s continuing success during a period of growth.

South Australian Businessman of the Year 2002, former Mitsubishi Motors CEO and Chair of the Safe Work Australia Mr Tom Phillips AM is chairman of the Advisory Board. Mr Phillips is joined by Josh Simons, partner of legal firm Minter Ellison Lawyers; Chartered Accountant Richard Koral, Director of taxation and accounting firm EFC Group; and Manufacturing Focus managing director Mark Fusco.

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MF sponsors IPOS'12

ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, 1 NOVEMBER 2011 - Manufacturing Focus is pleased to announce it’s sponsorship of the 2012 Integrated Planning & Optimisation Summit (IPOS’12). IPOS’12, to be held in Adelaide in February next year, is the premier event on the emerging top of enterprise-wide decision support.

The Summit is divided into Technical and Business streams, with a few keynote presentations that combine both streams together to challenge thinking about what’s possible and what the future will look like. The two streams are designed to the break the subjects of “Integrated Planning” and “Optimisation” down into digestible components, such as data issues, source systems, integration, process change, as well as case studies.

Manufacturing Focus will deliver two sessions on 'process based costs' and 'process based measurements and management'. Through the use of practical methods and case studies, MF will demonstrate the value of using accurate data to drive process costs and behaviour.

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Upcoming workshops - When the going gets tough ... the tough get Lean

ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, 30 AUGUST 2011 – Manufacturing Focus is sponsoring two workshops to be held during Southern Adelaide Business Month (October 2011). The workshops, titled ‘When the going gets tough…the tough get Lean’, will take business owners and key operational people of manufacturing companies through some simple and inexpensive techniques that can easily be applied to their business to produce more product with less – less time, less energy, less raw materials.

Mark Fusco, Managing Director of Manufacturing Focus, said the company is pleased to join with Innovate SA to provide these sessions for local manufacturers.

“We are proud to be able to give something back to our community and to support local business in this way” Mr Fusco said. “The sessions will assist the participants to understand what they could do differently in their manufacturing business to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of their operations”.

The workshops are being held on the 18^th and 19^th of October. For more information on the workshops click here to download the flyer, or for further information about Southern Adelaide Business Month go to www.sabm2011.com.au.

MF partners with ASC Training & Development

ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, 12 May 2011 – Manufacturing Focus, one of the leading manufacturing and organisational improvement providers in Australia, announced today that it has partnered with ASC Training & Development, a leading training provider to government and corporate clients, to provide nationally accredited training.

Mark Fusco, Managing Director of Manufacturing Focus, said the company would now offer Certificate III and IV in Competitive Manufacturing, complementing their manufacturing planning services, which are ideal qualifications for manufacturing workforces moving towards an advanced manufacturing future.

“We have found that the need to improve the skills of the manufacturing workforce is just as critical as any other changes to a factory planning for a sustainable future,” Mr Fusco said. “With the depth of hands on experience and knowledge within our team we are able to transfer real capability to our client’s workforce through training.

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