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A guide to reducing operating costs, this book presents a method for lowering operational costs and increasing productivity by establishing a performance based procurement specification on the components, devices, and items that contribute most to operational, downtime, and labor repair/replacement costs. The author discusses how to use product knowledge to develop a performance-based procurement specification based on reducing direct and indirect costs and explains how to review product submissions, select the product, and monitor the results. He covers the importance of performing a spend analysis, failure analysis, and understanding the equipment.…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
A guide to reducing operating costs, this book presents a method for lowering operational costs and increasing productivity by establishing a performance based procurement specification on the components, devices, and items that contribute most to operational, downtime, and labor repair/replacement costs. The author discusses how to use product knowledge to develop a performance-based procurement specification based on reducing direct and indirect costs and explains how to review product submissions, select the product, and monitor the results. He covers the importance of performing a spend analysis, failure analysis, and understanding the equipment.
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Autorenporträt
Michael Holloway has 25 years of industrial experience. His background includes organic and polymer synthesis as well as laboratory- to pilot-scale material manufacturing for Olin Chemical (Wilmington, Massachusetts), military and aerospace product development of sealants and coatings for Parker-Hannifin (Cleveland, Ohio), product engineering microelectronic photoresists for Rohm & Haas Electronic Chemicals (Midland, Michigan), technical marketing and application engineering for General Electric Plastics (Fairfield, Connecticut), sales and marketing management of automated dispensing systems for Graco (Minneapolis, Minnesota), and most currently as director of reliability and technical development of industrial and heavy equipment lubrication for NCH Corporation (Irving, Texas). Through the course of his career, Holloway has been involved in training customers and associates, giving seminars, as well as authoring numerous papers and articles as well as presenting novel concepts and case studies at national conferences. He has served as a contributing writer for Manufacturing.net, ASSEMBLY magazine, PlantServices magazine, Render magazine, and Lubrication and Fluid Power magazine. Holloway has been master black belt trained in Six Sigma, served as an adjunct professor at the University of North Texas, and was managing editor for Porsche Club of America's Slipstream. He holds a BA in philosophy and a BS in chemistry from Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island, and an MS in polymer engineering from the University of Massachusetts.