Manufacturing Best Practices: Optimizing Productivity and Product Quality

Modern manufacturing today is overwhelmed with tools to manage all the very complex manufacturing operations going on at once. Countless new, innovative ideas regularly become the flavor of the month: Deming′s Statistical Process Control, total quality management, Six Sigma, Lean, ISO 9000, just to name a few. All these programs offer outstanding tools to manage your business, make decisions, and manufacture a quality product but none can be an instant fix or guarantee your business′s success. What worked five years ago may have grown stale and no longer function for your business.

So, how can your organization know which best practice is most suited to its corporate personality and its needs right now?

Timely, insightful, and easy to read, Manufacturing Best Practices demystifies this topic. Author Bobby Hull delivers a hands–on resource providing complete guidance for CEOs, CFOs, and controllers, as well as line managers in the manufacturing sector.

Here, you′ll find straightforward advice on:

• How to effectively manage people and why it′s by far the most important best practice

• What defines quality and the establishment of quality requirements

• The importance of choosing the correct methods, equipment, and procedures

• Proper data handling and storage and how to do it

• Ensuring product quality and consistency through calibration

• Solid investigative techniques to uncover the real reason behind manufacturing facility errors

• Proven methods to properly label and handle your documented information

• How to successfully source, evaluate, and establish quality requirements

• Your role in customer service, customer retention, and creating a customer–focused philosophy

• Why the care, maintenance, and organization of the physical plant should be a major priority

In order to compete, your organization must be willing to constantly examine its processes and make adjustments where needed. Filled with examples and case studies, Manufacturing Best Practices provides step–by–step guidance to examine your current methods and create a set of best practices that will help your organization better organize its manufacturing efforts, improve its product quality, and gain more insight into its operations.

Praise for Manufacturing Best Practices

“This book should be a must read for anyone involved in the manufacturing process who is concerned with producing a quality product. Manufacturing Best Practices is an excellent resource guide for production managers as well as company presidents. The writer has presented all the material in layman terms and has taken a common sense approach to all topics.”
Louise Short, Quality Control Manager (retired), BGF Industries, Inc.

“In my role as vice president of quality control and engineering for a mid–sized manufacturing company, I learned to appreciate the rare talent found in Bobby Hull. In Bobby, our company found a young quality manager dedicated to using his advanced knowledge of quality control techniques not only to advance the quality and reputation of our company and its products but, perhaps most important, an individual dedicated to serving the customer′s needs each and every time.”
Charles H. Alligood, Vice President of Quality Control and Engineering (retired), BGF Industries, Inc.

Destined to become the “bible” of every CFO, controller, and line manager in the manufacturing sector, Manufacturing Best Practices offers a well–balanced presentation of what “best practices” should be in light of your business′s current needs and processes.

The most authoritative guide you will find on this topic, this book contains thorough discussion of best U.S. manufacturing practices in the areas of:

• Quality and quality requirements

• Testing

• Inspection and data handling

• Calibration

• Error proofing

• Document control

• Process control

• Raw materials, services, and suppliers

• Customer care, satisfaction, recruitment, and retention

• Physical facilities

The ultimate best practice is the ability and flexibility to change. Start here and now, with the proven, comprehensive coverage found in Manufacturing Best Practices.