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.