Making Common Sense Common Practice, models for manufacturing excellence

Making Common Sense Common Practice, models for manufacturing excellence by Moore, Ron. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780884158998.

Make more money in the manufacturing business - but not through cost-cutting and employee layoffs. This book clearly describes how you can turn common sense into common practice to achieve superior manufacturing performance and low-cost production. Presenting the best practices of the best manufacturing companies in the world, this book presents proven models for achieving world-class performance. Using companies in the world, this book presents proven models for achieving world-class performance. Using a fictional company called Beta International, the book illustrates the success and failures of the worlds premier manufacturers thus revealing a stable path of growth for almost any manufacturing company. Through the experience of Beta International, youll see how to increase uptime, lower costs, increase market share, maximize asset utilization, apply benchmarks and best practices, and improve many other aspects that ultimately raise your companys performance to the level of world-class. Making Common Sense Common Practice takes a good, hard look at plant design, procurement, parts management, installation and maintenance, training and even offers a chapter on how to implement a computerized maintenance management system. In todays tough competitive markets, Making Common Sense Common Practice greatly enhances your companys chance to succeed - and profit.