Making Common Sense Common Practice

Acknowledgments Preface
Manufacturing and Business Excelle nce Chapter 1 The Scene 1. The Players 3. Inte grating the Manufacturing and Marketing Strategy 5. Becoming the Low-Cos t Producer 8. Application of Increased Capacity 11. Beta s Beaver Creek Plant RoNA vs. Uptime 13. A Model for Becoming the Low-Cost Producer 13. Measuring Losses from Ideal 17. Sample Calculation of Batch Plant OEE 2 3. Discussion of Sample Measurement 28. A Special Case Beta s Dwale Plan t 29. Hiding Behind Excess Capacity (The Hidden Plant) 30. Differences B etween Batch and Continuous Manufacturers 33. Lean Manufacturing, Six Si gma, and Focused Factories 34. Summary 39. References 40.

Chapter 2 Benchmarks, Bottlenecks, and Best Practices
Benchmarking Finding Benchmarks and Best Performers 43. Making the Comparison 46. Bottlenecks A Dynamic View 54. Manufacturing Uptime I mprovement Model 58. References 65.
Chapter 3 Aligning the Marketing and Manufacturing Strategies Beta s Pracor Division 68. Market/Product Success Factors 69. Volume and Marke