9th February 2024
During February, GB News’ Britain’s Newsroom programme has been promoting success stories and opinions from the UK manufacturing community in its Innovation Britain segments.
Showcasing different manufacturers each day, PP Control & Automation with CEO, Tony Hague were selected for the segment on Friday 9th February. The segment was filmed and constructed by MTD CNC with Senior Manufacturing Reporter, Lyndsey Vickers.
Aired on: 09/02/2024
Segment: Innovation Britain (Skip to 59:57)
Programme: Britain’s Newsroom
“So important that we all promote the virtues of UK Manufacturing at every opportunity and highlight the strategic importance of investment in automation.
“So many exciting new opportunities for UK manufacturers being driven by sectors such as clean energy and renewables, and the wider GreenTech and emerging markets around sustainability.
“Continuing high interest rates and the associated cost of finance is definitely having a negative impact on investment right now, but it will surely start to ease through 2024.”
Tony Hague, CEO, PP Control & Automation
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Three PP Control & Automation directors roll back the years and document the impact different investments over three decades have made on the business.
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PP Control & Automation has completed the installation of 450 sq metres of solar panels on the roof of its world-class facility in Cheslyn Hay.
PP C&A has signalled its intentions to ramp up investment in its recently launched Bright Sparks University (BSU).
PP C&A has invested over £100,000 into creating a new Electrostatic Discharge manufacturing facility.
A world first in ‘crimping’ technology has been installed PP C&A to help with increased demand for its strategic services.
A new £1m factory extension has been unveiled by PP Control & Automation as it singled its intention to double sales by 2021.
Ian Knight, Chief Information Officer at PP Control & Automation (PP C&A) challenges the prevailing, often vague narrative around AI adoption and reframes the conversation around a more practical starting point: operational constraints.
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On paper, defined discipline-specific suppliers can look organised. However, every additional supplier introduces another handoff, and every handoff creates another point where time, quality, communication and accountability can be lost.
Very rarely does growth not surface because an OEM lacks ambition. Shortcomings arise because operating models built to support such ambition don’t evolve quickly enough.
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