This posting discusses corporate decision rights versus plant decision rights – where should the line be drawn? [...]
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This posting discusses corporate decision rights versus plant decision rights – where should the line be drawn? [...]
Why do so many manufacturing industries struggle to achieve success in the fundamentals of Maintenance Planning? A few weeks ago, I conducted a maintenance planning seminar at a tradeshow in Chicago. The attendees represented various manufacturing industries from all over the United [...] Part Four: The response To this point, everything we’ve discussed in this series has been a trip down memory lane. Today we start to examine the latest changes, and where things stand today. Western equipment suppliers had already been in a race to remain competitive, and cost reduction was a major focus for the reasons described in Part [...] Part Three: Enter The Dragon Previously we examined the cement industry and the relationship between all the players as it existed for generations, and then looked at how it began to change in the face of globalization. Today our little story about differentiation and changes in the marketplace is going to turn its focus on the relatively [...] Have you ever heard the expression “Life’s how it is, not how it ought to be?” An enterprise that wants to implement a standard reliability strategy across multiple sites must confront the implication of this statement. Most mining enterprises do not have cookie-cutter plants or facilities. The locations will vary in age of equipment and workers. The quality [...] Part Two: Globalization and Consolidation This is the second article in continuing series about how equipment and service suppliers differentiate themselves in the eyes of the cement producers. In the previous article, “One big happy family” we examined the time period where cement producers, equipment suppliers and manufacturers were generally well mixed and experience was widely shared. [...] Cement producers today face a globally competitive economic landscape and a wide variety of choices in how they approach major and minor capital expenditures. For suppliers the game is all about differentiation and defining what value they can offer. How can the producers navigate these waters? We at BGE thought it would be worthwhile to look [...] CEMEX announced on Tuesday that it had made significant progress in restructuring of its debt. It has managed to move the maturities of about 14.5 billion in dept out from the 2009-2011 time frame out to 2014. The move helps substantially secure the company’s short term financial stability. Texas Industries is under [...] |
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