Time-in-State Management as alternative to OEE in the Process Industries Webcast
Performance measurements (KPIs) aggregated over defined time intervals can mask inefficiency in processing plants. The complexity and dynamic nature of variables in...
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Real-Time Decisions: Linking Plant Floor Metrics to Financial Business Drivers
How does a company achieve maximum profit when labor and scarce materials are constantly fluctuating in price and availability? Determining the optimal combination of...
Metrics Makeover Contest-From Fire Fighting to Structured Improvement
Norbitech, a producer of electronic circuit assemblies in Røros Norway, was the European winner of MESA's Metrics Makeover Contest in 2010. Their customers' success...
Metrics Guidebook and Framework - Second Edition
This new Second Edition Guidebook is intended as a source of information that can be used to develop appropriate performance metrics for manufacturing companies. The...
MESA White Paper #50: Deploying the Time-in-State Metric in Real-time to Improve Process Performance
This whitepaper explains how to implement a management and control methodology on the plant floor in real-time to improve the Time-in-State Metric (TISM). The...
MESA Whitepaper #48: Time-in-State Metric Implementation Methodology
This document provides an introduction to the Time-in-State Metric implementation methodology. It illustrates how the methodology integrates human and technical...
MESA White Paper #47: Time-in-State Management in the Process Industries
This document will introduce the concept of Time-in-State (TIS) Management as well as the related TIS Metric to be used to measure performance. The paper also compares...
MESA White Paper #40: Performance Improvement and Metrics Practices
This paper is a snapshot of initiatives, metrics practices and improvements achieved.
MESA White Paper #35: Using Metrics to Diagnose and Solve Business Problems
All manufacturers, regardless of size or industry, are under constant pressure to improve performance due to many factors including global competition and the recent...
MESA Metrics that Matter Revisited
Public Summary Report of Correlating Plant Performance to Business Performance.
MESA Metrics that Matter Guidebook and Framework - First Edition
The First Edition of the Metrics that Matter Guidebook & Framework describes how to develop a sound system of performance metrics and provides valuable guidance for...
MESA Metrics for Major Initiatives Report
Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association (MESA) International and Industry Directions Inc. unveiled the second in a series of studies on Metrics today at the...
MESA Manufacturing Analytics
Analytics is more than just data. Analytics as both a process and disciple should drive all of your organizations stakeholders to common conclusions that result in...
Linking Operational & Financial KPIs In Practice
How does a company achieve maximum profit when labor and scarce materials are constantly fluctuating in price and availability? Determining the optimal combination of...
Improving Performance in Difficult Times: MESA Study Shows How - presentation slides
The current challenging economic climate forces manufacturers to improve performance. However, many manufacturers struggle to convert their in-plant operations...