DDU Newsletter for May 2009: Issue 67
Monthly news and events from Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council's Digital Development Unit...
Included in this edition:
Communications event for businesses
Burnley Borough Council announces its annual Business & Innovation Awards
How your business could benefit from a student summer placement
Make IT & Comms Work for Your Business
Looking for the ideal IT & Communications technology solution? Confused by the jargon & complexities surrounding technology?
Let us give you the answers that you need! The Digital Development Unit and East Lancashire Chamber of Commerce would like to welcome you to a special event, prepared for us by our partners BT Local Business.
This essential Free breakfast seminar will clearly explain how a growing business can successfully grasp today’s technologies to best meet their needs.
What’s more, expert advice is on hand throughout the day, and detailed information associated with the costs of implementing the technologies will be available.
Date: Tuesday May 19th, 8:15 for 9:00am start, buffet breakfast provided
Venue: East Lancashire Chamber of Commerce, Red Rose Court, Clayton Business Park Accrington BB5 5JR
Medical Innovation Showcase Conference
The Health Tech Hub (the industry/academic platform for the Medical Sector) is pleased to announce that bookings can now be taken for the Medical Innovation Showcase Conference.
This one-day conference will cover the following topics in the morning session:
- - Finance for Business
- - Collaborative Research and Development Grants to Support Medical Innovations: FP7 and Technology Strategy Board Funding
- - Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
- - Rapid Manufacturing in Healthcare
- - Promoting Health through Sustainable Procurement: 'Healthy Business' in the North West NHS
The charge for this event £39, lunch included. To book for this event go on to the website: www.healthtechhub.co.uk
Be a business winner at the Burnley Business & Innovation Awards 2009
Businesses across Burnley and Padiham are invited to enter for the Burnley Business & Innovations Awards 2009, which will take place at Towneley Hall on the evening of Thursday 18th June 2009. The sponsorship funded awards ceremony is organised by Burnley Council to honour and reward businesses that are making a difference in Burnley, by identifying innovation, improvement and best practice.
How will the Budget affect your business?
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, delivered his second Budget statement to the House of Commons on 22 April 2009. As part of Business Link's commitment to providing you with the latest news and relevant information for your business we have, for your convenience, summarised the key points of business interest on our website.
How a student placement can help your business
Shell Step gives you a cost-effective, short-term, highly skilled resource to help you get a new or outstanding initiative off the ground. Shell Step brings together students and graduates who want to gain valuable experience on real work placements with companies who want an injection of fresh ideas, talent and enthusiasm to inspire and build their business.
Your Shell Step student could work on a number of business areas such as researching and designing new product concepts, carrying out environmental audits, designing company literature or designing and building websites.
With the current academic year coming to a close, applications are now being taken for summer placements. Find out more online.
Local News for May 2009
Autumn Travel tours new technology
Autumn Travel is a Blackburn based company providing holiday tours with an emphasis on service levels and the safety of its coaches. The company specialises in complete tour packages including accomodation and travel.
With support from the DDU and its Eureka funding they have developed a complete management system for their tour operations. The system manages all the information needs of the business and is being used to calculate tour routes, allocate bookings, book hotels, invoice customers, plan drivers, and just about every aspect required to run the business. The system also allows secure remote access for places such as tourist information and will allow the staff to book customers on tours directly.
Axiom takes advantage
Formed in October 2004 Axiom Imports Limited supplies professional procurement services to the engineering sector, through project management, specialist parts sourcing and multiple discipline manufacturing.
Into their third year the directors started to become concerned in their sub contractors ability to service their requirements and investigated the prospect of providing more services in house..
Their current CNC equipment has the capability of manufacturing this type of work but most parts needed to be programmed offline using 3 dimensional software. The company needed to purchase this specialised software to enable this strategic move to go ahead. The DDU had been working with the company to determine how best this might be achieved. The company decided to commission OneCNC UK to customise and implement XR3 Mill Advantage to suit Axiom’s own particular requirements. Eureka provided financial support to enable this to progress.
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