28th October 2019
As an acknowledged leader in the provision of control & automation outsourcing solutions to many of the World’s most successful machinery builders, PP Control & Automation has had the opportunity to publish a variety of articles in the UK’s leading journals for the manufacturing industries. The business also encourages content creation from its management team on the varying elements of strategic outsourcing.
These case studies have been used to highlight and promote the very real business benefits realised through the close working partnerships developed with clients – Benefits such as:
PP C&A look to adopt a consultative approach when engaging with customers. Firstly, looking to fully understand and appreciate areas of constraint and ‘business pain’, before looking to design a manufacturing solution that will deliver specific remedies, based on individual needs.
The solutions offered are able to deliver significant and measurable results for customers. This year’s edition includes focused customer case studies hoping to offer clarity on those very solutions and relationships.
The digital copy which can be downloaded for free will also direct readers to related blogs, press releases and videos, making it the number one resource for machine builders looking to outsource to a strategic partner.
PP Control & Automation are world leaders in strategic outsourcing solutions.
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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.
Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant concept for manufacturers. It is already being explored across quotation, production planning, engineering, quality, supply chain and customer service functions. Yet, for many organisations, the gap between experimentation and meaningful operational impact remains difficult to close.
A leading aquaculture specialist – that is changing the way fish are vaccinated safely – has signed a major manufacturing deal.
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.
Recent weeks have brought two important industry moments into sharp focus, concluding that demand for AI and automation is rising, but investment, skills, and long-term thinking must follow.
For decades, one question has sat at the heart of operational strategy for machine builders and OEMs: make or buy? It’s a familiar debate and it isn’t the wrong question by any means, but perhaps it is an incomplete one.
In most machine building businesses, change is still treated as an exception. A late-stage drawing revision, component substitution, or wiring tweak discovered during build. Each one is handled, resolved, and signed off. And then everyone moves on. But what if that’s the wrong way to think about it? What if change isn’t the disruption to the system but the system itself?
