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 and Solve IT develop strategic alliance

ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, 6 May 2011 – Manufacturing Focus, one of the leading manufacturing and organisational improvement providers in Australia and SolveIT Software Pty Ltd, a leading provider of enterprise software for supply and demand optimisation and predictive modelling, announced today that they have entered into a partnership.

Leveraging the strengths and experience of both organisations, Manufacturing Focus and SolveIT Software will collaborate on a wide range of business improvement initiatives, including supply chain optimisation, production and process improvement, and advancing the use of technology to realise better enterprise performance and lower costs.

Manufacturing Focus provides a wide range of business improvement and expertise, especially catering to the manufacturing sector. Their offerings include manufacturing strategy, productivity improvement and factory planning and modelling services, advising on sustainability measures, process engineering, project management, KPI reporting, training, coaching and mentoring.

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