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Industrial Drives/Controls
News Release from: Siemens Automation and Drives
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 12 November 2004
Drives factory wins UK business
excellence award
Siemens Standard Drives manufacturing facility in Congleton, Cheshire, which produces the Sinamics, Micromaster and Combimaster range of products, has won the UK's top business award.
Siemens Standard Drives manufacturing facility Congleton, Cheshire, which produces the Sinamics, Micromaster and Combimaster range of products, has won the UK's top business award Managers from the Siemens business in Congleton were presented with the 2004 UK Business Excellence Award by HRH the Princess Royal at a ceremony in London
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 6 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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An independent jury awarded the factory for its exceptional performance and increased competitiveness.
Workers there have helped profits increase by five-fold over the past four years and the factory is now one of Siemens' global centres of excellence, exporting 98 per cent of its production.
Its electronic controls are used throughout world to control everything from car park barriers and baggage handling at airports, through to food production and manufacturing machinery.
Gordon Wakeford, managing director of the Congleton business, said: "The award recognises the effort everyone here has put into making this factory competitive with the best in the world.
It reflects what the UK can achieve when it invests in the future through training programmes, staff involvement in management decision making and in the latest production equipment." Previous winners of the UK Business Excellence Award include Rolls-Royce Airlines Operations, NatWest Insurance Services, Nortel Networks, and Hewlett-Packard (UK).
Joe Goasdoué, chief executive of the British Quality Foundation which runs the awards, said: "Entering for a UK Business Excellence Award is one of the toughest tests any organisation can take.
This year's winners are living proof that the UK can produce world-class companies.".
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