What is an energy walk round?

A walk round is an assessment of energy use at your site and is one of the key techniques in energy management. The aim of a walk round is to identify bad practice, inefficient equipment and poor energy habits. This will help you to form a plan to fix

Most organisations are drowning in data. However, few would deny the importance of this onslaught of data, since information can unlock operational efficiencies and business opportunities. The ongoing challenge is to filter critical information from the sea of data flowing through the

EMPLOYMENT LAW UPDATE FOR MANUFACTURERS

Simon Pender, Head of Legal and Employment Affairs at EEF South, reviews some of the latest changes impacting on employers in the manufacturing sector.


Handling retirements in the coming year

Age

From October 2006, it will be illegal to discriminate against age. For this reason, ACAS have developed a simple guide to hopefully provide a taster of how to overcome such hurdles when developing such policies to suit.

This document provides a summary of the key findings of the Carbon Trust's work looking at how policy instruments acting on business and the public sector can be optimised to deliver significant carbon savings whilst maintaining/enhancing the competitiveness of UK companies.

As the UK is experiencing increasing costs for the use of energy, we ask, E-on Uk.com,What are the key factors effecting energy prices?

There are numerous factors affecting the price of energy, many of which are external to business' control. The basic premise of supply and demand is

Manufacturing output in the UK has ended an 18-month run of weakness, but the upturn remains fragile and patchy, a report today revealed. According to the latest CBI/Experian Regional Trends Survey,.....

Where next for manufacturing? The 2005 survey of EEF South member companies paints a picture of an industry at something of a crossroads.

The dash for wholesale relocation to lower cost regions has largely been replaced with more pragmatic outsourcing strategies, yet there is little in

What is a supply chain?
The term supply chain represents the sequence of processes and activities involved in the complete manufacturing and distribution cycle - this could include everything from product design through materials and component ordering through manufacturing and assembly and

It's a dilemma faced by even the most successful companies. Customers are crying out for innovation. Yet if you create too many offerings, costs spiral out of control; create too few and you miss profitable sales. Because traditional accounting systems do not capture the full costs of complexity, we

Environment Secretary David Miliband and Minister Ian Pearson have met with representatives from the water industry.
They discussed water supply challenges in the short, medium and long term and the collective responsibility for tackling them.

There will always be concerns about the temperature that we work in. From one extreme to the other, the heat of oven work to the cold of the frozen food plant, temperature is a serious health & safety issue and one that needs to be addressed.
Too much heat and we run the risk of serious

Over one third of engineering firms in the UK believe that engineering graduate shortages and skills deficiencies are costing them money according to research carried out by Henley Management College for The Royal Academy of Engineering. One of the key areas affected is new product development,

Significant uncertainties remain with the implementation of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE) in the UK. For example, the methodology for allocating WEEE to companies for recycling and guidance on the scope of the Directive are still awaited.

Despite these