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News Release from: PICME
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Team on 17 February 2006
Glass replaces Lewis as Picme chief
Process Industries Centre for Manufacturing Excellence appoints Michael Glass as chief executive officer, replacing Mark Lewis who transfers to the North East Process Industry Cluster.
Michael Glass, Senior Adviser with the Process Industries Centre for Manufacturing Excellence (Picme), is taking over as the organisation's Chief Executive Officer from the beginning of March 2006 Current CEO, Mark Lewis, is remaining within the sector but will transfer to the North East Process Industry Cluster (Nepic) and from there will continue to support the process productivity improvement pioneered by Picme, as well as develop projects to sustain the industry in the region
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 4 May 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"I have enjoyed my Picme time immensely," said Lewis, who helped found the organisation five years ago, "and proud of our hard-won reputation for delivering real benefits".
"PICME is no longer in start-up mode and it is vital that the company is led by those with direct responsibility for clients".
Glass has been responsible for the Picme service from the start and is equipped to drive the organisation forward, said Lewis.
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"He and the Picme engineers will continue to support the industry with their distinctive approach to performance improvement developed with DTI and Trade Association support, and provide practical ways to improve performance sustainably".
From the beginning, Glass has led Picme's approach to continuous improvement in the process industries.
Glass said he would continue to develop the range of services Picme offered.
He is supporting the industry's emerging gold standard in training and development and is working with the Learning and Skills Council and Sector Skills Councils such as Cogent, Proskills, Skillfast and Semta to develop an NVQ in continuous improvement which is tailored to process sector needs covering areas such as lean manufacturing and six sigma.
"Helping companies in the UK's process industries adopt best practice and achieve manufacturing improvement will continue to be our primary focus," said Glass.
"The real challenge is culture change and we will continue to develop services and tools to help the industry drive and sustain continuous improvement both within their organisations and across their supply chains".
Since full establishment by the DTI, Picme is on target with delivering benefits to its process industry clients while facilitating the sort of culture change that is key to the industry's sustainability.
To date, Picme has helped these companies secure first year benefits of nearly £40 million, over ten times their investment.
Examples of these client benefits through improved manufacturing methods include: increased output of between 10 and 100%; reduced waste of between 10 and 80%; reduced changeovers and clean-down times of between 40 and 80%; and reduced lead times and stock of between 50 and 75%.
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