Making Common Sense Common Practice: Models for Manufacturing Excellence
Presenting the best practices of the best manufacturing companies in the world, this book presents proven models for achieving world-class performance. Using a case study of a fictional company called Beta International, Moore illustrates 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 company's performance to the level of world-class. 'Making Common Sense...
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Making Common Sense Common Practice: Models for Manufacturing Excellence, Third EditionRon Moore"Making Common Sense Common Practice not only provides enlightening concepts but also provides the ‘How to’ for accomplishing these tasks…Our plant is now using your book as a standard training and development tool."—John Guest, Production Manager, Michelin North America, Opelika Plant“This book is packed with practical, common sense ideas on how to improve manufacturing reliability. Through the application of an improvement strategy based on the principles in the book, we improved our uptime by over 30% in 3 years.” —David Ormandy, Site Engineering Manager, Huntsman Tioxide-Malaysia"In his new book… Ron Moore makes an eloquent argument for the strategic role that maintenance needs to play in modern manufacturing." —Rick Dunn, Editor, Plant Engineering Magazine“It’s a great book, a continuing tool for improvement.” —Abdou Benafghoul, West Area Engineering Manager, Kraft FoodsPresenting the best practices of the best manufacturing companies in the world, this book presents proven models for achieving world-class performance. Using a case study of a fictional company called Beta International, Moore illustrates how to increase uptime, lower costs, increase market share, optimize asset utilization, apply benchmarks and best practices, and improve many other aspects that ultimately raise your company's performance to the level of world-class. 'Making Common Sense Common Practice' takes a good, hard look at plant practices in design, procurement, parts management, installation, operation, maintenance, training, and performance measures, as well as aligning the marketing and manufacturing strategies. In discussing the successes and failures of the world's premier manufacturers, Moore outlines a stable path of growth for almost any manufacturing company. In today's tough competitive markets, 'Making Common Sense Common Practice' greatly enhances your company's chance to succeed - and profit.¨ Third edition features updates including new sections on innovation, change management, and leadership ¨ Presents proven models for achieving world-class performance based on real-life case histories ¨ Highly readable, concrete style brings the key points to life through a case study of a fictitious organization, Beta International, which runs throughout the book, based on real case historiesRon Moore is the managing partner of The RM Group, Inc., and an internationally recognized authority on reliability, manufacturing, and maintenance strategies.
1Manufacturing and business excellence12Benchmarks, bottlenecks, and best practices493Aligning the marketing and manufacturing strategies774Plant design and capital project practices1095Procurement practices1316Stores/parts management practices1577Installation practices1818Operational practices1959Maintenance practices21910Optimizing the preventive maintenance process26511Implementing a computerized maintenance management system27712Effective use of contractors in a manufacturing plant28913Total productive and reliability-centered maintenance31314Implementation of reliability processes34115Leadership and organizational behavior and structure36316Training40517Performance measurement41918Epilogue433AWorld-class manufacturing : a review of several key success factors441BReliability manager/engineer job description453
