AJM Consulting

For a long time now AJM Consulting has strived to make the application of information technology products and services more accessible to the chemical, food and pharmaceutical processing sectors. From its earliest experiences with the issues of creating manufacturing advantage, AJM Consulting has listened, learned, and applied what it's learned. The result is an increasing momentum toward the goal of making competitive advantage accessible to all of our clients – all of the time.

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Since our event management service started in 1996, we have arranged over 60 events for clients including DTI, DEFRA, The Carbon Trust and others. Whilst many companies can provide event management services, our strength is our focus on the process sector; chemicals, pharmaceuticals and food. As consultants to those sectors we understand the relevant technical and business issues in depth.

Seminars and Conferences
We can generate a highly relevant and interesting agenda, using an ever-increasing list of knowledgeable and skilled speakers to present technical papers on topics ranging from production logistics to advanced control, from fieldbus to hazard management and from statistics to batch control. Business-focussed topics include cluster management, climate change levy, environmental control and the hydrogen economy. As examples:

For DTI’s Advanced Control Technology Transfer Programme, which ran from 1996 to 2001, we provided 40 seminars throughout England, Wales and Scotland. Technical topics relevant to a wide range of manufacturing companies regularly attracted up to 130 delegates.

For The Carbon Trust, we have provided five events in England and Northern Ireland, aimed at enabling the UK chemical and related sectors to learn about strategic ways in which energy efficiency can be improved and carbon emissions reduced.

On behalf of Humber Chemical Focus we arranged the 2003 DICIDA (Development Initiative for Chemical Industry Dependent Areas) conference, held over two days and focussing on industry cluster development strategies and innovative technology. The event dinner, held at the National Fishing Heritage Museum, was particularly appreciated by the delegates, many of whom travelled from other EU countries for the event.

For Newcastle University, we provided a seminar on statistical process control in the chemical sector.

Workshops
Many organisations need to evolve. Workshops, with active participation, are an increasingly important way of achieving this. Multiple breakout sessions, running facilitated discussions aimed at identifying emerging issues and ways to address them, can be followed by structured open discussion to develop a balanced, consensus view. As examples:

For DEFRA we arranged a workshop on ultrasonic applications in food processing, with the aim of identifying key applications which could be eligible for development funding.

For CPACT, a consortium of the Universities of Newcastle, Strathclyde, Hull, UMIST and Imperial College, we arranged a series of two workshops aimed at developing a new industrial/academic partnership for EPSRC-supported research.

For The Carbon Trust we arranged three Stakeholder Workshops to assist in the development of forward strategy for 2004-5 and beyond.

Event Recruitment
Probably our principal strength is our contact database which now lists over 7,000 people in industry with an interest in the sectors and technologies in which we specialise. Prominent amongst these are the chemicals and related industries, plastics and instrumentation and control.

We invest heavily in this database; not only in expanding it but also in keeping it up to date. It is acknowledged as one of the most suitable for event recruitment in our target sectors in the UK today and is in regular demand from other organisations such as professional institutions, industry-facing university departments and so on.

Where appropriate we can liaise with other organisations to involve their own contacts. We have worked with the Institute of Measurement and Control, Institution of Electrical Engineers, Institution of Chemical Engineers, DEFRA, British Association for Chemical Specialities, Chemical Industries Association, Gambica and Humber Chemical Focus.

Our Capability
We can provide the skills and resources to handle every aspect of a successful event:

Event strategy
Agenda planning
Venue and catering
Delegate recruitment
Ticketing and joining instructions
Literature packs, name tags etc
Provision of sound reinforcement and projection facilities
Registration desk
Event chairing and workshop facilitation
Post-event analysis