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The monthly newsletter for ATS
ProActive2013 JUNE ISSUE
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Derek Hill wins Young Director of theYear Award
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In the news
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Derek Hill, Managing Director of Advanced Technology Services UK was announced the winner of the Young Director of the Year Award at the Institute of Directors East Midlands award ceremony on 17 May 2013. The event was held at the Nottingham Conference Centre and recognised 14 of the regions top industry leaders.
The award recognises Hill’s passion for business excellence and the entrepreneurial skills he has brought to the company since he joined in 2009. Underhis leadership ATS UK has grown 10-fold over the last three years seriously bucking the trend within British industry and creating new manufacturing sector jobs in the process.
Advanced Technology Services (UK)
Limited (“ATS”) works with multinational
manufacturing companies to improve
productivity and profitability through
the managed services of production
equipment maintenance, industrial parts
services and innovative IT solutions.
With it’s headquarters based in Kettering,
the UK company was established in 2007
as a subsidiary of Advanced Technology
Services Inc, which is headquartered
in Peoria, Illinois. The parent company
was founded in 1985, and employs
approximately 3,000 people across the
US, Mexico and the United Kingdom.
Hill attributes the companies ongoing
success to strong leadership, a clear
vision and a commitment to corporate
values that put customers at the heart
of everything they do. The company
has high growth ambitions which will
lead to job creation both within the
East Midlands and nationally.
Derek Hill wins Young Director of the Year Award
Live safetyOur first priority
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Hazard of the month Winner Andrew Grace – Maintenance Technician Titchfield
Congratulations to Andrew Grace Maintenance
Technician at Eaton Titchfield, for winning hazard of
the month. Andrew observed that the Hoist being used
to lift chucks and other items onto the machines was
the same as one used for general lifting. When filled
with sand the latter will lift 254kg, the former has the
sand removed to make it easier to use in confined
spaces, it has been rerated, but this should be stamped
on a riveted plate not poorly written and faded on a
paper sticker.
Hazard of the month
WINNER
During the End Former Kaizen event at
Brierley Hill, Kevin Hale, Technician was
undertaking a PM and discovered that
there were exposed wires on the main
cable leading to the foot switch which
is used to operate the Auto End Former
CPO254. ATS immediately isolated the
equipment and raised a work order to
rectify the issue, by remaking the end of
the cable and removing any previously
damaged cables. The cable was then
secured into the foot switch and the
remaining excess routed correctly to
prevent re occurance.
James Milne Technician at Eaton Titchfield
noticed that one of the fixtures in the
Pressure Section of the Non-Destructive
testing area had no fitting for a bleed line
to be connected. This meant the operator
was unable to relieve the built up pressure
in a safe and timely manner. In order to
resolve the problem, the fixture was taken
away and modified, and a right angled
fitting was put in so a bleed line could be
connected. The operator can now release
the pressure inside the fixture with the press
of a button.
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Critical Find Kevin Hale – Eaton Brierley Hill
Critical Find James Milne – Eaton Titchfield
Before
After
Before
After
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Jeremy Whitehouse Wolverhampton
Hi my name is Jez Whitehouse
and I am currently Tech 1 at
Cat Wolverhampton. Previously I
worked as a fabrication supervisor
for a large engineering company.
I joined ATS in May 2011; this was a
slight change in direction for myself
leaving a senior roll in manufacturing
to take up a more hands on roll
in the Maintenance arena. This
position brings me working closely
with the customer on a daily
basis solving CI or H&S issues that
require any fabrication or welding,
ie safety barriers, work stations
or modifications to existing kit. I am
very customer focused within my roll,
as a result I consult, design, fabricate
and install. I recently participated in
a 5S project in the maintenance area,
and my aim is to continue building
customer relations and further myself
within ATS.
Delight customers
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Sustainability drives financial benefits
One of our key contract measures for all of our customers. is to reduce
waste. For our maintenance contracts this means identifying ways to
reduce energy consumption, fuel utilisation and emissions.
In the last 18 months we have run a number of projects that have had
a positive impact in this area. One of which is at our customer Eaton,
where we have undertaken a leak detection programme. This has
resulted in over £50k savings for our customer in one year alone at a
single site. Proof that a focus on the environment and sustainability
drives real returns for our customers.
Delight customers
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The art of being brilliantRecently the ATS leadership team attended
the ‘Art of being Brilliant’ introductory
workshop. Andy Whittaker shared some of
the ‘secrets’ of Positive Psychology, focusing
on learning new habits of thinking and
behaviour that sustain personal ‘brilliance’.
Andy Whittaker - “ATS make business
run better. Art of Brilliance make people
run better. The core principles of ‘The Art
of Being Brilliant’ complement the ATS
Cultural tenets – embed them in your
organisation and inspire your people to
become the best they can be”
The team are looking to tailor the best parts
of the workshop in order to roll it out across
all sites.
Andrew Purchase Operations Support
Manager – “Andy Whittaker provided a
terrific perspective on how to improve
operational effectiveness just by changing
your mind-set, from thinking about what’s
not working, to thinking what could be
achieved with a more positive outlook”.
Developing people
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Developing ourselves
At ATS we have always believed that
the development of our people and
their skills is fundamental to our success.
We aim to provide the framework within
which individuals can grow and enhance
their skills to deliver services that our
customers value. But fundamentally,
learning and career development is
our own personal responsibility. Have
you taken time out recently to consider
where it is you would like your career to
be going and what skills you will need to
help you get there?
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3 day RCA Kaizen End Form Eaton Brierley Hill A follow up 3 day RCA Kaizen event
was held at Eaton Brierley Hill on the
End Former Process, with the main focus
being to further improve standard hours
vs clocked hours and build upon the
improvements realised during the last
event held on these machines back in
November 2012. The End Formers are at
the beginning of the tube process, and
their inefficiencies have an impact on
further processes in the Value Stream. The
team identified that Alignment, Pressure
and Sensor Management were now areas
that had become the priority to address
and took action on improving as much as
possible over the three days.
The event resulted in both significant level 1
& 2 savings being achieved with further cost
savings due for realisation upon a successful
period of sustained productivity gains.
Another follow up event is scheduled for
July to re-visit and further improve the area.
Well done to all of those involved.
Enhanceprocesses
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Enhanceprocesses
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Drivinginn vation
Lean IT Asset Management Traditional IT asset management required
spares stock to be kept and located
within a manageable space. While
this is a quite logical approach to
equipment resilience it is often quite
costly to do so – especially as a business
grows in size and locations.
Our approach is to monitor the
performance of IT enabled devices
(PC’s, servers, network equipment and
tablets). Thresholds are set to alert
us as faults develop. These faults are
typical disk utilisation, overheating and
hardware failure. With the right levels
of alert we can often predict imminent
failure and activate the repair process
before actual failure takes place as a
scheduled activity.
The benefit of this approach; reducing
on the shelf stock and increasing
equipment availability. Resulting in a cost
saving to the business to invest in other areas.
For more insight visit www.enterprisewatch.com
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A WINDOW TO YOUR ENTIRE ENTERPRISE
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The End Former kaizen event was a follow
up from one done in February of this year, as
the new planner to ATS @ Eaton Brierley Hill I
was given the task of leading the event.
The event went really well and we had
a strong team with good support from
our customer. Many of the issues on the
machines were technical, but with the help
of the operators I was able to assist with the
implementation of standards in the area.
One of the most impressive things within a
kaizen is the focus on executing the actions
within the given timeframe, as well as
highlighting opportunities for further events.
Although I was nervous about leading
the event, it was a big learning curve that
was both enjoyable and beneficial. I look
forward to working on upcoming Kaizen
events and further developing my career.
Amy Nutting Planner/Scheduler Brierley Hill
Demonstrate leadership
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5S events have recently been carried
out at Wolverhampton, Brierley Hill
and Havant all of which have made
significant improvements to both the
layout and efficiency of ATS technicians
work areas. Well done to all involved with
the events.
5S events
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Congratulations
Kulwinder Bhamber, Maintenance Technician Associate at Brierley
Hill, for achieving his 5 year service award.
“I am delighted to have recently received my 5 year service award.
I joined ATS as an apprentice at Eaton Electrical Reddings Lane,
to which I remained until successful completion of my apprenticeship in 2011.
Since that time I have gained valuable on the job experience through working
at various other sites within the business such as, Caterpillar Wolverhampton,
Eaton Aerospace Titchfield and Eaton Automotive
Brierley Hill. This year I permanently joined the ATS
team at Brierley Hill where I have undertaken a
new Materials role, giving yet more responsibilities
and control. I have enjoyed my first 5 years with the
company who have supported me from day one,
I hope to establish myself further as a core member
of ATS going forward.”
ATS Global
5YRS Service award
1YR Service awards
Congratulations From left to right: Colin Sansom (Maintenance Technician),
Julian Burrows (Maintenance Technician), and Ian Stewart (Technical Services Supervisor) for achieving their 1 year service award.
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How it all began An idea that started off as a sketch on a
piece of paper is today a multi-million dollar
company with a world-class organization,
strategically diversified services, and a
rapidly growing workforce spread across
three countries and 162 sites.
Advanced Technology Services has
emerged as a leader in outsourced
production maintenance, serving some of
the world’s leading brands.
Watch here
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Meet Team USA
Vice president Don Johnson speaks at the IW ‘13 conference
Watch here
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CONTINUOUSIMPROVEMENT
Live SafetyDelight CustomersDevelop PeopleEnhance ProcessesDrive InnovationNurture RelationshipsDemonstrate LeadershipDeliver Results
CULTURALCOMMITMENT
A Way of Business, A Way of Life.
£500 BONUS is waiting for you Did you know that there is a £500 bonus
available to all staff for the successful
introduction of new business?
So if you have a contact in another
manufacturing company that you
believe would benefit from working with
ATS, simply contact Keith Edmonds on
www.advancedtech.com
Advanced Technology Services UK LtdUnit 4 BeechwoodCherry Hall RoadKettering Business ParkKetteringNorthamptonshireNN14 1UE
Phone: +44 (0)1536 311650
Email: [email protected]
Key Contacts
Managing DirectorDerek [email protected]
Sales & Marketing Keith [email protected]
Continuous ImprovementSteve [email protected]
Human ResourcesClaire [email protected]+44 (1536) 311655 – Direct+44 (1536) 311650 – Office