Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals
Picme was established in 2000 specifically to raise the competitiveness of the UK’s process industries such as chemicals, coatings, polymers, pharmaceuticals, healthcare and biotech. Since then we have worked with a great many leading companies from across these sectors implementing manufacturing and supply chain improvement.
We have developed an improvement methodology tailored to each of the process sectors that we believe is superior to any other available in the market place. True to Lean principles of better, quicker, cheaper, we deliver greater improvements, more quickly, more sustainably and more economically than any other provider. At the heart of our methodology lies are ability and determination to transfer skills into client teams so that they own and lead improvement for themselves right from the outset.
Most of process manufacturing is in a squeeze, even much of the pharmaceutical industry, where customers are demanding more for less; raw material, energy and labour rates are rising; low cost overseas competition is growing; and regulatory pressures and costs are an increasing burden. picme has directly helped manufacturers to:
- substantially increase capacity of existing facilities without capital expenditure,
- increase plant reliability,
- increase right first time manufacture,
- increase process yields,
- improve customer service levels
- increase flexibility reducing changeovers and cleanouts
- increase regulatory compliance (e.g. cGMP) and safety
- reduce costs
- reduce duration of plant shutdowns, and maintenance tasks
- reduce lead times and dependency on stock
Picme has benchmarked a great many process manufacturers both in terms of their performance levels and efficiencies and also their on-site practices. This provides a quantified, well informed insight into a business’s opportunities for improvement and guidance on the steps needed to raise performance.
Currently Picme is benchmarking the Scottish Process Industry on behalf of the Scottish Manufacturing Advisory Service. If you may be interested in your site taking part please click here to fill our our enquiry form with Scottish Process Industry in the Your Enquiry box.
Picme is part of an integrated network of support organisations for the process industry, capable of designing, building, commissioning and modifying plantsdeveloping and up-scaling new products and processes better understanding and optimising chemical and physical processes consulting on more sustainable technologies raising employee skills risk management, safety case and IPPC studies and other regulatory compliance and energy management .
We understand that many businesses are in a squeeze and they, or their operating sites, could greatly benefit from top quality support but may feel they cannot afford it. picme services are exceptional value for money and deliver clear benefits that greatly outweigh their costs but sometimes government will share the cost. We work closely with the regional chemical cluster groups, local and national government and their brokers to deliver you services drawing upon public funding where ever possible. To find out more email us at enquiries@picme.org.