TY  - BOOK
AU  - Martin,Peter
AU  - Boyes,Walter Murray
TI  - Real-time control of the industrial enterprise
SN  - 9781606503614
AV  - HD31 .M277 2014
U1  - 658.4 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York, [New York] (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017)
PB  - Momentum Press
KW  - Industrial management
KW  - asset control
KW  - asset management
KW  - control theory
KW  - enterprise control
KW  - enterprise control systems
KW  - Industrial Revolution
KW  - industrial safety
KW  - industrialization
KW  - industrial business
KW  - industrial operations
KW  - operations empowerment
KW  - operations excellence
KW  - operations management
KW  - organizational silos
KW  - process control
KW  - profitability control
KW  - speed of business
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-149) and index; 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; Restricted to libraries which purchase an unrestricted PDF download via an IP; Also available in print
N2  - Here is something you may not know. Almost all the productivity gains of the last 50 years have not come from better chemistry or better design. Yes, there have been advances in chemistry, in materials, even in biology. But these advances have not by themselves increased general productivity, nor have even better management and financial controls, nor the ubiquitous MBA graduates and sophisticated financing instruments. Not even entrepreneurship in the heyday of Silicon Valley created huge productivity advances. And certainly, the relocation of many business units offshore produced only a limited, and possibly wrongheaded, accounting improvement in productivity, which has declined as wages and working conditions in Asia and Latin America have improved
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