Making Common Sense Common Practice: Models for Manufacturing Excellence

* Third edition features updating plus 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 histories

Audience: VPs of Operations for Manufacturing companies, Manufacturing Managers, Maintenance Managers and Engineers world wide.

Making Common Sense Common Practice: Models for Manufacturing Excellence, Third Edition

Ron 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 Foods

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, 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 histories

Ron Moore is the managing partner of The RM Group, Inc., and an internationally recognized authority on reliability, manufacturing, and maintenance strategies.

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.