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at all levels, MPS gives each and every

looking at how and where we do what

one of us a set of tools to maximize

we do.

performance and creativity, streamlining
our efforts from the boardroom to

Tomorrow's factories will be intelligent,

the factory ﬂoor. It makes continuous

highly responsive units-smart

improvement personal because it's

components will ﬁnd their own way to

inﬁnitely ﬂexible: our people use it to

become products, using the Internet

target and solve any problem, big or

of Things to talk to machines and

small.

people. Meggitt Modular Modiﬁable
Manufacturing, or M4, is leading the

On the factory ﬂoor, MPS ensures that

revolution, turning traditional factory

everything is focused on supporting the

layout and ﬂow on its head with a

" makers " -the people who assemble

ground-breaking combination of present

the systems and components we sell.

and future technology.

We're also putting it to work everywhere
from engineering and procurement to

M4 will enable us to make a wider variety

sales, HR and ﬁnance. And we're reaping

of components in each factory, maximize

the rewards: MPS is delivering better

use of all our state-of-the-art equipment

performance across all functions-

and integrate new technologies when

safety, quality, delivery, inventory and

they come on stream. Big data, captured

productivity.

at each stage of manufacturing, will feed
into improved assembly and design,

As a result, leadership can switch from

taking each of our factories closer and

focusing on smoother operations to

closer to performance gold.

maximizing returns from trading assets
and long-term business strategy

One key example of this is our
investment in our new Ansty Park

INNOVATION DRIVERS
It's not just our products and solutions
that we're continually developing; we're

supersite, a showcase for M4, that is
scheduled to become fully operational
by the end of 2020.

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