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Making Common Sense Common Practice, models for manufacturing excellence [Hardcover]

Ron Moore (Author)
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May 10, 1999
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 world's premier manufacturers thus revealing a stable path of growth for almost any manufacturing company.

Through the experience of Beta International, you'll 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 company's 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 today's tough competitive markets, 'Making Common Sense Common Practice' greatly enhances your company's chance to succeed - and profit.

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"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

" ... needless to say I agree with every word!" - Sandy Anderson, Senior Vice President-Technology, Imperial Chemical Industries

"...illuminating, entertaining, stimulating, inspiring, and laced with good, down-to-earth, practical common sense. From a Maintenance perspective, Ron makes the perfectly valid point that Maintenance's ability to provide a high level of plant performance is heavily influenced by practices in the other key areas. Ron outlines...some highly practical tips, snippets of information, and approaches which can lead to improvement in all of these areas. For example, there is an excellent few paragraphs on Pump Reliability Best Practices, which includes half a dozen very simple, but very practical tips. ...The style is highly readable, and never dull. I strongly recommend this book to Maintenance Engineers, Maintenance Managers, and non-Maintenance Managers, who wish to have their eyes opened to the real keys to Maintenance Improvement." - www.plant-maintenance.com --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Moore outlines the best practices of the best manufacturing companies in the world—proven models for achieving world-class performance --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing (May 10, 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0884158993
  • ISBN-13: 978-0884158998
  • Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.8 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,255,976 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ron Moore lives with his wife Kathy in Knoxville, TN, where they are employees of The RM Group, Inc., a manufacturing management consulting firm. They were high school, then college sweethearts, but parted ways. To make a long story short, they came together again some 20 years later, and now have between them six children, 13 grandchildren and counting, and one great grandchild. Ron has a BS and MS in mechanical engineering, along with a MBA, while Kathy has a BA in art. Their very different perspectives, combined with their very similar values, provide balance in their relationship, and ultimately make for a very kind and loving life together.

Ron works with manufacturing and industrial companies worldwide to help them improve their performance.

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great career development material, January 11, 2007
Ron Moore's knowledge and passion for business comes out in his book "Making Common Sense, Common Practice". I give this book to supervisors as required reading material when they are preparing for the Society of Maintenance & Reliability Society's - Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional Exam.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Best all-inclusive Maintenance and Manufacturing reference!, March 29, 2010
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Ron Moore has broken the traditional mould of Maintenance manuals with this book! This is an all inclusive comprehensive guide to managing, operating and maintaining a production facility. I highly recommend this book for both Operations and Maintenance / Reliability professionals. Covers everything from business Key Performance Indicators (KPI) to establishing meaningful vibration alarm limits. The book relates information in a storybook fashion using several imaginary facilities as examples, which makes it much easier (and more entertaining) to digest.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Forward to the Fundamentals, June 20, 2008
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Ron's book is not only good for the Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals certification, it's great for educating upper management that cutting costs are not always the answer to driving improved capacity and plant reliability. Many times, investing in proactive behaviors outweigh saving our way to prosperity. When undergoing change efforts around reliability practices, I share this book with senior management, asking them to read the first two chapters if nothing else.

Jeff Shiver, CMRP, CPMM
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Kaohsiung Industries, an international manufacturing company, has recently made substantial inroads into US and European markets, shaking the confidence of investors in competing US and European manufacturers. Read the first page
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reactive maintenance levels, lost uptime, plant replacement value, asset utilization rate, continuous manufacturers, precision process control, condition monitoring technology, root cause failure analysis, higher uptime, improved uptime, strategic training plan, lowest installed cost, benchmark plants, discrete plants, gross margin contribution, overall equipment effectiveness, manufacturing excellence, process conformance, key process variables, continuous process plants, packaging capability, predictive technologies, operator care, unplanned downtime, plant reliability
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Beta International, New York, Beaver Creek, Bob Neurath, Goose Creek, Benchmarking Consultant, Mossy Bottom, Pracor Division, Annual Conference, Productivity Press, Stone Coal Creek, Beta's Wayland, Industry Report, San Francisco, West Point, Beta's Allen Central, Beta's Whamadyne, Harvard Business Review, Pride Consulting, The Fifth Discipline, Time Figure, United Kingdom, University of Tennessee, Winston Ledet, Computational Systems
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