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Real-time control of the industrial enterprise /

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Main Authors: Martin, Peter (Author), Boyes, Walter Murray (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, [New York] (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Momentum Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Industrial management.
asset control
asset management
control theory
enterprise control
enterprise control systems
Industrial Revolution
industrial safety
industrialization
industrial business
industrial operations
operations empowerment
operations excellence
operations management
organizational silos
process control
profitability control
speed of business
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. A retrospective
  • The impact of industrialization
  • Organizing for industrialization
  • The separation of operational management from business management
  • The importance of electricity
  • 2. Out of control
  • The business of industry getting out of control
  • Driving force 1, industrial business going to real time variability
  • Driving force 2, plant floor focus on profits
  • Driving force 3, operational empowerment
  • Driving force 4, increased production agility
  • Requirements for dealing with real-time business variables
  • Bringing industrial business back into control
  • It is all about the data!
  • 3. The evolution of the labor force
  • The labor problem
  • Profitability just happened
  • The organizational schism
  • Closing the schism
  • A new kind of craftsmanship
  • The downsizing debacle
  • 4. Knocking profit out of control
  • The computer revolution
  • Business, out of control
  • A lead business indicator, the electric power industry
  • Real-time industrial businesses
  • The impact
  • Real-time profitability model
  • Traditional organizational and architecture mismatch
  • 5. Applying control theory to profitability
  • Controlling profitability
  • The profitability control loop
  • A cascade control system
  • The need for enterprise control systems
  • 6. The barriers to real-time enterprise control
  • A technology versus solution focus
  • The capital project process
  • Traditional accounting practices
  • Common engineering perspectives
  • Organizational silos
  • Business and production process limitation
  • 7. Practical applications of real-time enterprise control
  • Control performance excellence
  • Asset performance excellence
  • Human performance excellence
  • Safety and environmental performance excellence
  • Summary
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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