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- Title: MODERN MANUFACTURING (Volume 1)
- Author : Michelle Segrest
- Release Date : January 06, 2019
- Genre: Management & Leadership,Books,Business & Personal Finance,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 4507 KB
Description
Since 2008, Michelle Segrest has been touring manufacturing facilities worldwide for major industry trade publications. She has toured more than 75 manufacturing facilities in 12 countries on three continents. Each plant made a memorable impression. This three-volume ebook series about modern manufacturing showcases the 30 factories that she felt had the most compelling stories to tell about innovation, efficiency, and reliability—with a glimpse of what the future of manufacturing looks like. Michelle shares her first-hand experiences touring manufacturing facilities worldwide, delivering the lessons learned from the best practices of industry champions.
Innovations like additive technology and strategic facility design are changing the face of modern manufacturing. The first in the series, Modern Manufacturing Volume 1—Best Practices from Industry Champions covers the impact of the industrial internet of things (IIoT) and how big and small companies incorporate bright ideas and simple strategies to boost their overall plant performance, increase efficiency, and improve reliability.
This ebook includes real-world case studies from worldwide industry champions General Electric, Festo, Eli Lilly and Company, Gulf Coast Electric Motor Service, Inc., Hydro, Inc, Mercedes Benz, Palm Beach Zoo & Conservation Society, Reliance Industries Limited, Rivertown Brewery & Barrel House, and Uponor North America.
Each chapter offers key tips and takeaways from the experiences of these companies and their methods to continuously improve operations. This volume explores best practices and tools like artificial intelligence, condition-based monitoring, in-house equipment testing, sophisticated power systems, computerized maintenance management software, culture change, drones, and advanced automation.
Each chapter is a detailed case study which can be easily read in one sitting and provides a comprehensive account of how these world-class facilities use game-changing methods to improve plant operations. Each case study also includes key tips and takeaways that can be used in any plant, in any industry.
Foreword by Yannick Schilly, President and CEO of Altix Consulting, Inc.