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      <title>'Impact' is everything in engineering sector jobs</title>
      <description>'Who you know' and 'what you know' is no longer enough to get a job in the engineering sector, according to a report published by the Chartered Management Institute</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Engineering firms win Queen's Awards </title>
      <description>Several firms from the engineering sector are celebrating after winning a Queen's Award for Enterprise - the UK's most prestigious annual accolade for business success</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Queen's Awards for Enterprise</category>
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      <title>Virtual Industrial Ethernet University via the web</title>
      <description>The Contemporary Controls virtual 'Industrial Ethernet University' continues to offer solid learning in the technology: industry experts  acknowledge the site as an excellent free resource </description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Contemporary Controls</category>
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      <title>Definitions of success in the engineering sector?</title>
      <description>Managers within the engineering sector believe there is a discrepancy between how individuals and their organisations judge success.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Chartered Management Institute</category>
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      <title>Optimism outweighs fear of rising business costs</title>
      <description>A survey published by the Chartered Management Institute reveals that managers in the engineering sector believe 2007 will be a successful year for business</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Chartered Management Institute</category>
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      <title>Christmas is cancelled this year - Scrooge</title>
      <description>The season of goodwill has been replaced by a 'Scrooge mentality' in the engineering sector, with organisations resenting the idea of festive celebrations</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Chartered Management Institute</category>
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      <title>Engineering industry managers live with regrets?</title>
      <description>Managers in the engineering sector are plagued by a sense of regret, with many believing they have failed to reach their true potential, says a recent survey</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Chartered Management Institute</category>
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      <title>Local MP declares Schneider Electric a success</title>
      <description>Telford MP, David Wright, visited the UK hub of electrical leader Schneider Electric in Telford, where he witnessed some innovative new energy saving solutions and brand new interconnection technology</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Schneider Electric</category>
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      <title>Britain's most energetic engineer?</title>
      <description>Smiling employees in engineering plants across the country are being encouraged to put their boss forward as Britain's most energetic, in a national search by energy supplier Powergen, part of E.ON</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Editorial Articles: Miscellaneous submissions</category>
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      <title>Financial rewards don't stop women quitting </title>
      <description>Women have received higher salary increases than men for the tenth successive year and are more likely to be given a bonus, but still walk out first</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Chartered Management Institute</category>
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      <title>GSM 'Barcode Superstore' for simple shopping</title>
      <description>The new online GSM shopping outlet, the Barcode Superstore, provides customers with a more product orientated service that offers the facility to browse and purchase goods at any time of the day</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>GSM Printer and Label Systems</category>
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      <title>Final call for IChemE Awards process entries</title>
      <description>Entries for this year's IChemE Awards close on 03 July, and this is the final call: entry is simple, and there are ten categories of award, so any company that has made an achievement is covered!</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>IChemE (Institution of Chemical Engineers)</category>
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      <title>A new crane helps moulding machine efficiency</title>
      <description>Modern manufacturing demands military efficiency: this is the philosophy of Games Workshop, the leaders in tabletop war gaming and the makers of Warhammer</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Street Crane</category>
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      <title>Emerson acquires Bristol Babcock </title>
      <description>Acquisition of Bristol Babcock for USD121 million expands portfolio of measurement and control products, technologies, and services for process industries worldwide &#13;
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>State-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Texas</title>
      <description>Thermo Electron Corporation, a premier global supplier of analytical instruments, has announced the recent expansion of its manufacturing operations in Texas</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2005 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Emerson promotes Mark Dutton to UK General Manager</title>
      <description>Emerson Process Management announces that Mark Dutton was promoted to General Manager, United Kingdom and Ireland, with effect from 1st September 2005</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2005 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Emerson Process Management UK/Ireland</category>
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      <title>Women enjoy rapid rise up career ladder: at a cost</title>
      <description>Women are getting promoted more quickly than men, but are more likely to resign, according to figures released by the UK Chartered Management Institute and Remuneration Economics</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2005 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Chartered Management Institute</category>
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      <title>Bullying is widespread in engineering management</title>
      <description>Research published today by the Chartered Management Institute shows that bullying at work is widespread in the engineering sector, affecting executives across all levels</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2005 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Sandretto online services to boost customer care</title>
      <description>Leading injection moulding machinery supplier, Sandretto UK, has launched new website-based services that will enable customers to buy its products and components on-line&#13;
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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Semiconductor materials suppliers merge</title>
      <description>Entegris and Mykrolis Corporation announce that their respective stockholders have approved the proposed merger between the two companies</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2005 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Entegris</category>
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      <title>'All work and no play' - the motto for engineers</title>
      <description>Despite calls to end the UK's long working hours culture many managers in the engineering sector refuse to stop working, according to a survey by the CMI!</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2005 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Staff retention nosedives despite bonus bonanza</title>
      <description>Organisations in the UK engineering sector are struggling to hold on to their employees, despite the frequency and value of bonus payments, and benefits packages improve</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Technology innovators to be honoured at EXPO 2005</title>
      <description>As part of an ongoing effort to spearhead technical advances that set the standard for automation, ISA will honour six industry leaders for achievements in science and research, at ISA EXPO 2005</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2005 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>ISA:Instrumentation Systems and Automation Society</category>
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      <title>ISA embarks on search for new Executive Director</title>
      <description>Rob Renner, Executive Director of ISA has announced his resignation to pursue a unique opportunity in the water sector as Executive Director of the Awwa Research Foundation</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2005 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>ISA:Instrumentation Systems and Automation Society</category>
      <link>http://www.processingtalk.com/news/isa/isa161.html</link>
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      <title>Endress+Hauser Product Documentation 2005 on CD</title>
      <description>The Endress+Hauser documentation CD for 2005 provides operating manuals quickly, to prevent a plant shutdown, and technical information to research a potential instrument for any plant</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2005 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Endress+Hauser</category>
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      <title>Digital Hall-effect switches are ultra-sensitive</title>
      <description>The A3213 and A3214 from Allegro MicroSystems Europe are micropower omnipolar digital switches based on ultra-sensitive, pole-independent Hall-effect switches with latched digital outputs</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2005 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Allegro MicroSystems Europe</category>
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      <title>Carlo Gavazzi appoints new UK Sales Director</title>
      <description>Carlo Gavazzi has appointed Alan Hickman as Sales and Marketing Director to lead the company's sales and customer support operations in the UK</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Nominate people for ISA honours in 2005</title>
      <description>ISA is requesting nominations for the annual honours and awards: the deadline to submit either Society service or technical award nominations is 31 January 2005</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2004 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>ISA:Instrumentation Systems and Automation Society</category>
      <link>http://www.processingtalk.com/news/isa/isa139.html</link>
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      <title>Motorcycling for Meningitis by a system integrator</title>
      <description>Mark Brackley, sales director at systems integrator Jade Communications, has undertaken and completed an 1800-mile motorcycle ride (Land's End to John O'Groats) to raise funds for the Meningitis Trust</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2004 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Schneider Electric</category>
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      <title>New President for GAMBICA</title>
      <description>GAMBICA, the UK association for instrumentation, control, automation and laboratory technology, has announced the appointment of Colin Perry, Chairman, LTE Scientific, as its President this year</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2004 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>GAMBICA</category>
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      <title>Dietmar Harting celebrates his 65th birthday</title>
      <description>The entrepreneur at the helm of the Espelkamp-based Harting Technology Group company for 37 years, Dietmar Harting, celebrates his 65th birthday this month</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2004 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>UK managers beg bosses for 'pat on the back'</title>
      <description>What managers really think of their bosses was made clearer today as Adecco and the Chartered Management Institute revealed their first UK 'whinge report'</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2004 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Chartered Management Institute</category>
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      <title>The FBO Systems MLS now speaks simplified Chinese</title>
      <description>Chinese manufacturers can now access maintenance, MRO and procurement information in their native language, with the FBOS primary software solution, MLS, translated into Simplified Chinese</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2004 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>FBO Systems</category>
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      <title>Emerson expands facilities in China</title>
      <description>Emerson opened its newest facility in China to serve customers in the process industries, with a USD 10 million world-class headquarters and manufacturing plant in Pudong Development Zone</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2003 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>Emerson Process Management</category>
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      <title>Specialist in equipment sourcing and supply</title>
      <description>UFB, based in Aberdeenshire, have introduced a new concept to buyers and engineers from all industry sectors, to assist them with the selection and sourcing of valves, actuators and process equipment</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>UFB (Process Control Solutions)</category>
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      <title>Online centres for manufacturing excellence</title>
      <description>The EU Sim-Serv and Max-Serv initiatives report excellent progress with their first twelve industrial cases: more technology suppliers are now being sought in order to meet the strong industry uptake</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2003 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>ABB creates new Nationwide instrumentation network</title>
      <description>A new comprehensive instrumentation supply and service network has been created by ABB to serve customers throughout the UK: the Instrumentation Alliance comprises five carefully selected partners</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2003 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>ABB Automation Technologies (Instrumentation)</category>
      <link>http://www.processingtalk.com/news/abb/abb103.html</link>
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      <title>Free on-line benchmarking assessment</title>
      <description>The EU-sponsored Max-Serv initiative announces a new free on-line assessment service of process industry manufacturing performance against a set of carefully selected benchmarks</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2003 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Free interactive benchmarking assessment</title>
      <description>Max-Serv, an EU-sponsored initiative to bring European process manufacturing to World-Class levels, announces a new free online assessment to benchmark European manufacturers performance</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2003 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
      <category>MAX-SERV</category>
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