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A KPI Standard to Improve Process Performance
The international standard, ISO 22400 - Key Performance Indicators for Manufacturing Operations Management, defines a set of 34 high value Key Performance Indicators...
Key Performance Indicator Assessment Model
An important element of the KPI lifecycle is for target process stakeholders to make periodic assessments of the current effectiveness of the KPIs applied to the...
Field Tests of KPI Effectiveness Methods
KPI effectiveness methods and tools have been developed in support of the elements of the KPI lifecycle.
Sustainability in Manufacturing Metrics, What does that mean looking forward?
This presentation reviews the evolution of sustainability and what the future looks like.
KPI Lifecycle for Process Control
The concept of a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) lifecycle is introduced and its usefulness defended.
Are you Honest with Yourself? Introducing the MESA Metrics Maturity Model
The MESA Metrics Maturity Model establishes a framework or system for the creation of manufacturing and related metrics. It allows organizations to assess their...
KPIML Defining and Exchanging Key Performance Indicators
Having KPIs are fine, but if you can’t reliably get them from the generating system to where they are needed, then they quickly lose their value. KPIML is an XML...
Time-In-State in Mining Beneficiation
This case study illustrates how Time-in-State facilitated an 9% improvement in production throughput without major capital expenditure and / or equipment modification.
Time-in-State Metric
This presentation explains how to implement a management and control methodology on the plant floor in real-time to improve the Time-in-State Metric (TISM).
Metrics Makeover Contest
In 2010-12, MESA held a contest where one manufacturer in North America and one in Europe won a consulting engagement that helped them identify and measure a key...
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...
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...
Analytics that Matter
Analytics that Matter
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...