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Driving More Value From Existing Investments
One of MESA’s primary objectives for 2008 was to develop and publish a series of Manufacturing Guidebooks. The relentless focus on operational improvement and corporate compliance has elevated the need for new and enhanced ways to drive more value from existing assets, and it’s become increasing clear that a better, more systematic flow of information from the operation is key to enabling and accelerating those initiatives. MESA’s intent is to help manufacturers successfully create justification for, implement and then measure the impact of a series of strategic corporate initiatives in this area. These Guidebooks consist of a holistic set of pragmatic guidance and best practices to both, educate key stakeholders and to identify & address key issues related to the successful implementation of these initiatives. The major components of each of the Guidebooks include: Problem Definition, Cost Justification and ROI development, Project Critical Dependencies, Implementation Guidance, Risk Assessment and Success Criteria and Measurements. The 5 initial Strategic Initiatives we selected are the following (click on the links below for more information):
- The Real-Time Enterprise
- Lean Manufacturing
- Quality and Regulatory Compliance
- Asset Performance Management
- Product Lifecycle Management
We’ve formed five core working groups to drive these Strategic Initiatives, each one consisting of a mix of end users, vendors, analysts and system integrators from all over the world. The Guidebooks will be considered "living documents." The first five guidebooks are currently under a review cycle and will be re-released to our Premium members in the coming months.
The corporation most likely to succeed in today’s business environment is not just an assortment of individual departments or plants or supply chain partners but a highly orchestrated set of complementing business processes focused to meet or exceed customer expectations. This new MESA model of the modern manufacturing/producing enterprise depicts the generation of information at the most basic value adding process levels of the plant and how this information supports and is supported by enterprise business application processes and longer term strategic initiatives. MESA supports this holistic view of enterprise processes by providing information sharing and thought leadership between leading manufacturing companies, vendors and industry professionals. The first five guidebooks are currently under a review cycle and will be re-released to our Premium members in the coming months.