Human Resources Case Studies | Page 2

Alcon Components was established in 1984 by engineer and sports car racer John Moore in order to make brakes for Audi Sport’s Group B Quattro rally cars.

Mondi Packaging is one of Europe’s largest integrated packaging manufacturers. They make a full range of corrugated and paper products including point of purchase displays.  When the management of the Mondi factory in March, Cambridgeshire wanted to replace their existing manual clock card system with a computerised one, they reviewed the various systems available. In particular, they wanted a system that was also an Access Control system capable of handling Fire Roll Call reporting.

Bearward Engineering Ltd is based on a 6,000 square metre site at Main Road, Far Cotton, Northampton England where it is a major supplier to the world generating set market. It is also a significant supplier of radiators for pumping and construction equipment, off highway, rail traction and other specialist equipment. Around 500 people work within the group with 300 at the Far Cotton site.

Baker Perkins Ltd process equipment has established a worldwide reputation for innovation, reliability and service in the bakery, confectionery, snack, breakfast cereal, and biscuit, cookie and cracker industries.

Ranheat design, manufacture and install a complete range of equipment dealing with extracting energy from wood waste. This includes wood burning boilers and heaters, automatic feed systems and chimneys and ancillary components.

Johnston Sweepers’ production sites in the UK manufacture a wide range of municipal and contractor cleansing vehicles from the 4 tonnes GVM Compact series to chassis mounted units in excess of 18 tonnes GVM. State of the art engineering design facilities and manufacturing techniques ensure that the product range continues to be an industry quality leader, the company claims.

March Foods Ltd is a privately owned business operating from an 11,000 m² (120,000 ft²) purpose built factory in March, Cambridgeshire. It employs 150 people at this site and is one of the UK’s leading Food Contract manufacturers and packing businesses, specialising in providing timely and high quality production services to customers.

Part of the Abbeycrest Group, Brown and Newirth Ltd are one of the largest manufacturers of Wedding and Engagement rings and other jewellery in the UK. In 2007 the company wanted to replace their aging Time & Attendance System with a more up-to-date one that would provide better functionality and interoperability with their network and server systems.

Albany International Limited is a global business with a base at Bury in Lancashire and employs nearly 150 staff. Its primary business is supplying the expanding world paper industry with consumable, technologically sophisticated products called paper machine clothing. Paper machine clothing is used to produce all grades of paper from lightweight sanitary tissue to heavyweight container board.

Bearward Engineering Ltd are one of the largest producers of industrial radiators in the world manufacturing over 35,000 radiators a year.