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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

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Advanced Technology Services UK LtdUnit 4 BeechwoodCherry Hall RoadKettering Business ParkKetteringNorthamptonshireNN14 1UE

Phone: +44 (0)1536 311650

Email: info@advancedtech.com

Key Contacts

Managing DirectorDerek Hilldjhill@advancedtech.com

Sales & Marketing Keith Edmondskedmonds@advancedtech.com

Continuous ImprovementSteve McCarthysmccarth@advancedtech.com

Human ResourcesClaire MacgregorCMacgreg@advancedtech.com+44 (1536) 311655 – Direct+44 (1536) 311650 – Office