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Real-time control of the industrial enterprise / Peter Martin and Walter Boyes.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, [New York] (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Momentum Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource (xxvi, 154 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781606503614
  • 1606503618
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 658.4 23
LOC classification:
  • HD31 .M277 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
1. A retrospective -- The impact of industrialization -- Organizing for industrialization -- The separation of operational management from business management -- The importance of electricity --
2. Out of control -- The business of industry getting out of control -- Driving force 1, industrial business going to real time variability -- Driving force 2, plant floor focus on profits -- Driving force 3, operational empowerment -- Driving force 4, increased production agility -- Requirements for dealing with real-time business variables -- Bringing industrial business back into control -- It is all about the data! --
3. The evolution of the labor force -- The labor problem -- Profitability just happened -- The organizational schism -- Closing the schism -- A new kind of craftsmanship -- The downsizing debacle --
4. Knocking profit out of control -- The computer revolution -- Business, out of control -- A lead business indicator, the electric power industry -- Real-time industrial businesses -- The impact -- Real-time profitability model -- Traditional organizational and architecture mismatch --
5. Applying control theory to profitability -- Controlling profitability -- The profitability control loop -- A cascade control system -- The need for enterprise control systems --
6. The barriers to real-time enterprise control -- A technology versus solution focus -- The capital project process -- Traditional accounting practices -- Common engineering perspectives -- Organizational silos -- Business and production process limitation --
7. Practical applications of real-time enterprise control -- Control performance excellence -- Asset performance excellence -- Human performance excellence -- Safety and environmental performance excellence -- Summary --
Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract: Here is something you may not know. Almost all the productivity gains of the last 50 years have not come from better chemistry or better design. Yes, there have been advances in chemistry, in materials, even in biology. But these advances have not by themselves increased general productivity, nor have even better management and financial controls, nor the ubiquitous MBA graduates and sophisticated financing instruments. Not even entrepreneurship in the heyday of Silicon Valley created huge productivity advances. And certainly, the relocation of many business units offshore produced only a limited, and possibly wrongheaded, accounting improvement in productivity, which has declined as wages and working conditions in Asia and Latin America have improved.
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In today's world of manufacturing, it's possible to be efficient but notprofitable. How is this possible? While today's manufacturing process controlis real time, enterprise management remains transactional, and accountingsystems remain structured for early 1800s piecework. Why arealmost all of the productivity gains in manufacturing arising from betterautomation and control of processes (continuous, batch, hybrid, or discrete)and not from better chemistry, design, management, or financialcontrols?This book shows you exactly why this has happened and just how tofix it. The author details how automation and control can be applied tothe supply chain, the enterprise, and to financial management. Inside,you'll learn:* How to use the principles of real-time process control to bettermanage, measure, and control manufacturing businesses, bothhorizontally and vertically;* How to achieve much greater speed of information transfer forimproved control over supply chain and distribution; and* How totally integrated inventory control, automatedmanufacturing, automated customer service, and smart pricingcontrol ultimately lead to higher profits.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-149) and index.

1. A retrospective -- The impact of industrialization -- Organizing for industrialization -- The separation of operational management from business management -- The importance of electricity --

2. Out of control -- The business of industry getting out of control -- Driving force 1, industrial business going to real time variability -- Driving force 2, plant floor focus on profits -- Driving force 3, operational empowerment -- Driving force 4, increased production agility -- Requirements for dealing with real-time business variables -- Bringing industrial business back into control -- It is all about the data! --

3. The evolution of the labor force -- The labor problem -- Profitability just happened -- The organizational schism -- Closing the schism -- A new kind of craftsmanship -- The downsizing debacle --

4. Knocking profit out of control -- The computer revolution -- Business, out of control -- A lead business indicator, the electric power industry -- Real-time industrial businesses -- The impact -- Real-time profitability model -- Traditional organizational and architecture mismatch --

5. Applying control theory to profitability -- Controlling profitability -- The profitability control loop -- A cascade control system -- The need for enterprise control systems --

6. The barriers to real-time enterprise control -- A technology versus solution focus -- The capital project process -- Traditional accounting practices -- Common engineering perspectives -- Organizational silos -- Business and production process limitation --

7. Practical applications of real-time enterprise control -- Control performance excellence -- Asset performance excellence -- Human performance excellence -- Safety and environmental performance excellence -- Summary --

Bibliography -- Index.

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Here is something you may not know. Almost all the productivity gains of the last 50 years have not come from better chemistry or better design. Yes, there have been advances in chemistry, in materials, even in biology. But these advances have not by themselves increased general productivity, nor have even better management and financial controls, nor the ubiquitous MBA graduates and sophisticated financing instruments. Not even entrepreneurship in the heyday of Silicon Valley created huge productivity advances. And certainly, the relocation of many business units offshore produced only a limited, and possibly wrongheaded, accounting improvement in productivity, which has declined as wages and working conditions in Asia and Latin America have improved.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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