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January 2017
What a year 2016 was for all of us: great
results, great team work and great working
as one team. No challenge
was too big for us and we are striving
forward into 2017 with the same mind-set.
The quotes below helps to outline that we
all have different talents and skills but
together we are changing the business, we
must stay focused more than ever this year
to achieve the biggest year in the history of
PA.
We are going to smash it, by remembering
to look for ways to improve the business,
quality, reducing lead-times, reduce cost
and remembering we can adapt and
change to anything that comes our way.
Sandra McCabe
FOC presentation and next
steps:
The FOC project team presented their
findings to the business in early Jan 2017
from the analysis carried out over a 3
month period during 2016. As a group it
was decided that additional data needs to
be obtained to increase the accuracy of
the figures being reported.
To achieve this both James Bridge and
Greg Simpson are to collect and trend
data between January and March 2017
from FOC modification orders and FOC site
visits. This data is to include every item
within the time period that has been given
away at a value of £0. Each FOC visit or
order raised will be assigned to the
department believed to be responsible.
This will enable the team to focus on
eliminating potential repeat issues within
the departments concerned.
The team are due to present their latest
findings and the next steps mid-march.
FOC team

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Last year we were all involved in a training programme
where our team was formed (Tanya, Mike, Sam, Lee,
Greg, Ian, Chris E and Jimmy). Part of this programme was
to bring together an A3 project plan to present to
management. We needed to look at the process for hire
machines returning to PA from customer sites. The
outline of the project is to find an area to assess, carry
out any work required and store machines. This would
improve machine availability, lead times and give sales a
complete overview of the fleet available for hire.
Once our suggestions had been presented to Neil and
Sam, who had both been excited about our proposed
process, unfortunately the space ear-marked had to be
made available for another project.
We have now been challenged to continue with this CI
project to improve the flow of hire machines through the
business. We have plans in place for a kaizen day to
change the layout at the back of Fabs to suit our
requirements and the kaizen will take place in February.
After our first meeting we established that our team
values for the project are:
● Honesty
● Commitment
● Support
● Accountability
● Fun
● No idea is a bad idea
These values will assist us in completing a successful
project and we look forward to updating you in the near
future.
Rising stars team.
TOOLING PDI PROJECT
Our team was assembled to look at PDI’s in the business.
After the first meeting we decided to look at issues raised
on the tooling SQCDP board to try and help reduce the
problems. The team comprised of myself as team leader
Mike Chesters, Phil Lambourn, Mark Astill and Trevor
Wildman.
Due to the complex nature of tool design we decided to
start with rotary tools. At our next meeting an intense
brainstorming session took place with Paul Butler being
present to help guide us. From this we decided to pick 8-10
simple pre-manufacturing checks.
We then used historical data from tooling SQCDP board to
cross reference against the PDI checklist to see if any of
the problems could be avoided using our own PDI checklist.
We used data from December 2016 and found 15 rotary
tooling problems and it was concluded 10 of these issues
could have been avoided.
The team’s next step is to trial our project over the coming
weeks with the help of tooling design department.
The team presented our PDI check for rotary tooling to the
assembled managers and team leaders.
The presentation went well and our ideas and hard work
were received with enthusiasm and after a brief Q&A
session our project was given the all clear to proceed from
Feb 1st. The team thank Paul Butler for his support with
this project.
WATCH THIS SPACE.
Graham Hayward Team Leader & M.A.T.H
(Manufacturing Alliance Trophy Holder)
Phil L, Mike C, Mark A, Trev W.

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Data Capture Project
Hi all,
Just a quick update on the fabulous VK data capture
project. We were given the go ahead just before
Christmas to roll out the boxes on all the remaining
machines (apart from hurco for now!!!). This is ongoing
and the 2nd box is due to be installed within the next
couple of weeks. The trials we have done have produced
some exciting data which will enable us to plan accurately
the workload for the machines which in turn should reduce
down time and enable us to increase capacity throughout
the VK department and help us achieve our goals as a
business. I would like to thank my team for the ongoing
work they are doing to ensure this project continues on
track and meet our deadlines. These are exciting times for
the business with the increase in turnover and my team
and I are enjoying being part of the experience and
contributing to PA`s success.
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a
chance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Paul Barrow Project leader
Stars of the month
The stars of the month are
the personnel who have increased
their skills and are supporting core skills to enable flexibility
through teams.
● Paul Franklin
● John Stanley.
● Sam Leyland.
● Mark Astill.
● Nick Purcell.
The benefits will enable our workflow to run smoothly
during peak times as we can see where we may be
over/under capacity within the production process.
The Team leaders wrote this
for the CI article November
2016.
Sandra McCabe
3rd Party Projects team
The team members are:
Dan Robinson - project leader
Lee Humphries
Claire Carless
Steve Woodhead
Stuart Bateson
Mike Emery
As a project, we were challenged to increase turnover
and profit by working and using 3rd party equipment. As
a team we didn’t know what to expect at first, we knew
attempts had been made to work closer with suppliers
in the past and these attempts unfortunately didn’t stick
so what could we do to change this ?
It took us a couple of weeks to get into the swing of
things to decide what we wanted as a final outcome but
once decided, the ideas came flowing from everyone. It
is an ideal team, myself (Dan) and Lee work with 3rd
party suppliers closely in our day to day jobs already,
Claire knows how to advertise to our customers what
we were doing, Steve and Stu know the ins and outs of
how this suppliers equipment works and Mike brings in
a refreshing view as an outsider and also seen bits and
bobs on how things work in our industry.
Where we want to be:
What we want to be able to offer is full turnkey projects
where PA will be the main point of contact for our
customers, which will be a huge benefit to our
customers. It also opens up our relationships with our
suppliers, which may create leads we have not had
before. From what we have done so far, we feel these
relationships are already growing as Yamato have
offered the use of the open day facilities to PA to take a
machine to their site in Leeds; the likes of ICE have
also used the facilities in the past and have said how
beneficial they can be.
3rd Party team

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Team building game
Tool Assembly and
purchasing team game 10th
January 2017
How did the team do?
Height 90 cm, built in 22 minutes. Great team work,
great design. The tower did not stand for 1 minute.
● VK, Hi cell and manual milling the
leaders, with 127 CM and the
quickest time built in 17 minutes.
● Fabs 111.76 built in 20.40 minutes
● Managers 110cm built in 18.40 mins.
● Systems 96.52 built in 21.20.
● Assembly and Assembly electrical 94cm and built
in 20 mins
● Sales 80 cm built in 23 minutes.
● Stores 113 cm the biggest yet but it never stood
free standing for 1 minute.
● Accounts IT, Service and Reception, Spares, Prod
office co-ordinators the team they built it in 20
mins and a height of 134cm but it did not stand for
1 min.
● Design, Tool design and support areas. 24.33 cm
built in 22.30 minutes did not stand for 1 minute.
● Tool assembly and Purchasing 90 cm built in 22
minutes.
The final team to go in the first round is Projects in
February.
Sandra McCabe
Coming up - through January and
February
● New VK data project progressing to all VK
machines, P Barrow and his team will have the new
process on all machines 3-4 by end Feb. Weeks
2-8.
● Work flow into the cutting room completed with an
introduction of SOP, to enable the flow to be audited. Weeks
1-3.
● FOC 1st part of the project the team present their first Go
see. Week 2.
● Spaghetti diagrams Kitting process, N Orme team, Weeks
2-7 project work. Go see week 7.
● Team Game week 2, bench fitting and Purchasing.
● 3rd Party project, 1st part, project work progressing. Week
2-7. Go see week 7.
● PDI project progressing, with the Go see on 25th January.
Week 4.
● Ritherdon coming to site to see, how the Sales team and
Spares web page work. Week 4.
● Core skills part 1 completed week3, 2nd part Week 4.
● Late internal spares project kicks off week 5.
● Internal non-conformance process and return parts project,
kicks off week 5.
● Projects team game in week 6.
Sandra McCabe
Well done FOC team for great 1st phase presenting, Greg,
James, Chris E, Chris T, Paul B.
Well done to PDI team for their 1st phase presentation,
Graham, Phil, Mark, Mike.
Well done Gary and Phil and Mick C and Mike K for
supporting training of their personnel on core skills.
Well done Paul F, Mike K and Shirley for cutting room flow
exercise.
Well done to Gareth, Shirley and Emilie, Sam and Neil for the
great visit for Ritherdon coming to PA.
Well done to Bench fitting and Tool assembly and Purchasing
for their team game effort, good team work.
Well done Michelle R for completing all training, CI, Spaghetti
training and SQCDP training, with only being with PA for a few
weeks.
Well done good effort for achieving a great total generating
413 countermeasures in December
Sandra McCabe