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Sixth Sense: Works Management talks to Ian Knight about PP’s Six Sigma journey

Works Management talks to Ian Knight, chief technical and information officer at West Midlands-based PP Control & Automation, about the firm’s Six Sigma journey and why more UK manufacturers need …

Growth still the fastest way to profitability

Manufacturers should target growth over cost-cutting to help them increase profits. That is the belief of Tony Hague, managing director of automation specialists PP Control & Automation. Hague has seen …

PP set to launch ‘Open Careers Day’ for young and enthusiastic people in July

[box] Careers Open Day When: Monday 24th July and Tuesday 25th July 2017 Where: PP Control & Automation Landywood green, Cheslyn Hay, Walsall, WS6 7AL [Show Map] [/box] Are you keen …

Brexit One Year On: Keep Calm and Hedge The Pound

When Britons voted to leave the European Union a year ago, the managing director of PP Control & Automation, which makes electrical-control systems, was devastated. The feeling didn’t last long. …

MAN Group June 2017 Newsletter

The Manufacturing Assembly Network June 2017 Newsletter is now ready for download. PP feature in this month’s MAN Group Newsletter, detailing our ambitious new sales target after a £1m factory expansion. …

PP offer ‘smart’ insight into the factories of the future

More than 20 machine builders and manufacturers were given an insight into how modern manufacturing could look as part of the latest interactive workshop by PP Control & Automation. ‘Smart …

PP Control & Automation unveils £1m extension to support £40m sales target

A new £1m factory extension has been unveiled by PP Control & Automation as it singled its intention to double sales by 2021.

Smart Machines for the Future: 4th May 2017

After the success of our last Smart Machines for the Future seminar, we are pleased to announce that we are running a brand new seminar featuring talks from B&R, Comau, …

WATCH: New video insight into PP Control & Automation

Newly released PP Control & Automation video gives an insight into PP’s position as a world leader in strategic manufacturing outsource solutions. An overview of the complete manufacturing solution offered …

Growing threat of the replicas from the Far East is addressed

PP Control & Automation feature in the Machinery Update, where Tony Hague (Managing Director) warns UK machinery builders that they need to protect themselves against the growing threat of the …

Why Sales is not a dirty word

David Fox, chairman of PP Control & Automation, tackles the much maligned world of the sales person and explains why the ‘dark art’ of selling is more about process than …

Smart Machines for the future – 8th December

Whether we call it Industry 4.0 or the Industrial Internet of Things, the next industrial revolution is here… and it will be powered by smart machines. We are holding the …