Making Common Sense Common Practice: Models for Manufacturing Excellence

This text presents the best practices and proven models from manufacturing companies across the world, by exploring the successes and failures that have led to a stable path of growth for any company. The book describes how to turn common sense into common practice to achieve superior manufacturing performance and low-cost production. Through the experience of Beta International, a fictional company, the book illustrates how to increase uptime, lower costs, increase market share, maximize asset utilization, apply benchmarks for best practices, and improve many other aspects that could ultimately raise a company's performance to the level of world-class. The text takes a good look at plant design, procurement, parts management, installation and management, installation and maintenance, and training.

Table of Contents:
Manufacturing and business excellence; Benchmarks, bottlenecks, and best practices; Integrating the marketing and manufacturing strategies; Plant design and capital project practices; Procurement practices; Stores/parts management practices; Installation practices; Operational practices; Maintenance practices; Optimizing the preventive maintenance process; Implementing a computerized maintenance management system; Effective use of contractors in a manufacturing plant; Total productive and reliability-centered maintenance; Implementation of reliability processes; Organizational behavior and structure; Training; Performance measurement.

About the Author :
Ron Moore, P.E., is the managing partner of The RM Group, Inc., and an internationally recognized authority on reliability, manufacturing, and maintenance strategies. He has also been president of Computational Systems, Inc., a supplier of instruments and software to manufacturing companies. Moore holds BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of New Hampshire and an MBA from the University of New Haven and is conversational in Russian.

Review :
"Making Common Sense Common Practice picks up where Lean Thinking left off. It fills in the gaps, and more importantly, provides the 'how' of implementing Lean Manufacturing." Lyle Bickley, Process Improvement Engineer Thomas Steel Strip, Division of Hoogovens-British Steel "...the book accomplishes its goal of offering profound knowledge that supports a journey to world-class performance." Klaus Blache, General Motors Corporation Chairman, Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals "It's the best management book I've read in years." John Ball, CEO Thomas Steel Strip, Division of Hoogovens-British Steel