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Manufacturing Systems Standards: Project Execution
by Joe Stefani, EnteGreat

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Paper Overview
The need for standards is clear, but in order to be effective at addressing all of these issues, a standards program must have certain characteristics. Standards fail to serve their purpose or facilitate business performance when they are not comprehensive, current, or enforced. Most companies endorse the idea of standards, at least conceptually, because it is generally understood that standards help the business. However, the commitment and rigor needed to make standards a functioning reality is frequently absent. Standards must be employed holistically and adopted broadly, or they are subject to failure.

EnteGreat's series of five papers on Manufacturing Systems Standards explains what a manufacturing systems standards (MSS) program should be, how it works, and how it generates value. The fourth paper in the series explains how the use of templates and a carefully planned execution process provide the framework that helps the project teams get all of the work done precisely and comprehensively.

Paper Outline

• The Use of Templates
• The Four Main Systems Project Phases
  • Viability Phase
  • Planning and Analysis Phase
  • Design and Build Phase
  • Start-up and Commission Phase
• The Thin Slice Prototype

About the Author
Joe Stefani has over 25 years of broad-based consulting and implementation experience in successfully identifying and deploying value-added business and technology solutions for diverse domestic and international industrial clients, including; manufacturers of Pharmaceuticals, Specialty Chemicals, Food, Beverage, and Consumer Packaged Goods, Metals, Tire and Rubber goods, and Textiles.

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