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      <title>PICME moves to the next phase</title>
      <description>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</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>European Fine Chemicals conference in Manchester</title>
      <description>Based in the heartland of the UK Chemicals Industries, PICME is supporting the 12th European Fine Chemicals conference at the Manchester United Stadium on 1-2 Dec 2005</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2005 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>PICME cultivates the North East</title>
      <description>Middlesbrough-based PICME, the Process Industries Centre for Manufacturing Excellence, reports a growing presence and take up of services in the North and North East UK</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Team leaders are key players in driving success</title>
      <description>The PICME Annual Conference at the Telford International Centre, Tuesday September 27, will, as ever, put particular emphasis on the people skills needed for sustainable manufacturing improvement</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2005 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Lean approach extended to office operations</title>
      <description>Innovia Films has been successfully partnering PICME in lean issues at its Wigton Cumbria site: Innovia has now rolled out the lean manufacturing lessons learned to develop a 'lean office' standard</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2005 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Manufacturing improvement bears fruit</title>
      <description>Leading specialised organics producer AH Marks has completed a programme of work with PICME that has seen the Wyke based manufacturer achieve a quantum leap in process decontamination effectiveness</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>PICME Sept 27 conference progress report</title>
      <description>The PICME Annual Conference has become the forum for UK process-based companies to learn how to get the best from lean manufacturing. and how to make that improvement journey positive</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2005 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>PICME saves significant time in process operations</title>
      <description>AH Marks has completed a programme of work with PICME that has seen the Wyke based manufacturer achieve a quantum leap in process decontamination effectiveness</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2005 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Lean manufacture benchmarking and experience</title>
      <description>A don't-miss diary date: the PICME annual conference, with presentations of lean manufacturing experience and results, is set for September 26/27 at the Telford International Conference Centre</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2005 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>New look PICME goes from strength to strength</title>
      <description>PICME has refreshed its four year old corporate identity with a new look that is intended to enable expansion into additional markets with the newly created services</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2005 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Lean manufacturing message in Grimsby May 17</title>
      <description>The Process Industries Centre for Manufacturing Excellence (PICME) takes its lean manufacturing message to the Europarc Innovation Centre, Grimsby on Tuesday May 17</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>New UK Chemicals manufacturing improvement award</title>
      <description>The Process Industries Centre for Manufacturing Excellence, PICME, is sponsoring a new initiative to help, encourage and reward manufacturing improvement by UK chemicals companies</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>PICME message works for Scotland</title>
      <description>The Process Industries Centre for Manufacturing Excellence - in association with Scottish Enterprise - delivered a strong case for manufacturing improvement in UK chemicals at a conference in Glasgow</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>UK inefficient and ineffective production methods</title>
      <description>Despite good progress over the last 3 years the UK's chemicals and process industry still needs to increase its use of the lean manufacturing approach to make its manufacturing globally competitive</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2005 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Programme boosts manufacturing operations</title>
      <description>Surface Specialities UCB-BOPP has completed a programme of work with PICME that has seen the company achieve a series of radical improvements in a number of manufacturing operations</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2004 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>PICME cross functional team works for Akzo Nobel</title>
      <description>Akzo Nobel has been working with PICME on manufacturing improvement techniques that have led to a significant increase in plant availability and a decrease in plant downtime at their Hull site</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2004 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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