Correlating Plant Performance to Business Performance
This is an interactive panel discussion on the challenges of ensuring that improvements in the plant truly make a recognized difference to the overall business. Julie...
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Harnessing the Power of Metrics to Diagnose and Solve Business Problems
In this webcast, you will hear directly from the architects behind MESA White Paper #35: “Harnessing the Power of Metrics to Diagnose and Solve Business Problems” as...
Improving Order Execution Performance: A Holistics View of Metrics Across Plant & Warehouse
Executive interest in performance metrics is high, yet companies often don’t achieve the results they want. One of the most common causes is that companies are not...
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...
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...
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...
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 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 that Matter Revisited
Public Summary Report of Correlating Plant Performance to Business Performance.
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 White Paper #40: Performance Improvement and Metrics Practices
This paper is a snapshot of initiatives, metrics practices and improvements achieved.
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 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 #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...
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...