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Facilities Rules of Thumb and Estimating Benchmarks
Facilities Rules of Thumb and Estimating Benchmarks
Cost Estimating and Tricks of the Trade - A Practical Approach
Kolmetz Handbook of Process Equipment Design - General Process Plant Cost Estimating
rules-of-thumb-werc.pdfThe Gross & Associates Rules of Thumb brochure was a handy wealth of information long before the Googles and the Chats and the GPT's took over everything.
This Rules of Thumb brochure was published in 2010 after TranSystems acquired Gross & Associates in 2008. At the time they were proud to continue the tradition, possibly because it was already written and still fairly up-to-date. I don't know that they've published another in the past 15 years. If you find a more recent version, send it to me!The costing estimates are no longer quite applicable except as a frame of reference and order of magnitude, but the handbook provides a relevant glimpse into production layout & lighting recommendations, square footage norms, forklift aisles, pallet & racking calculations, and a ton of still-relevant and useful industrial insights.
Print yourself a copy and use it to fact check your research assistant.. AI or not.
Standing Workstation Height
Standing Workstation Height
Optimal height varies based on task type
Height SHOULD be adjustable to accommodate stature differences and to prevent Cumulative Trauma Disorders (CTD).
UWAT-2022-05 Standing Work Height Poster FINAL updated 16apr24.pdfProcess Control Charts
Process Control Charts
SPC (Stastical Process Control) isn't as nerdy or "in the weeds" as it sounds. And it's pretty simple to begin.
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This quote from a $5 book might have just changed your life.
It's only $5 on AbeBooks, the best place to buy used books online.If nothing else check out the mind-bending examples of how well-meaning managers inadvertently manipulated their actions to satisfy metrics, usually to show progress or improvement, much to the detriment of their businesses.
I'll take the OVER if we're betting:
"This still happens in 95% of companies and almost everybody is blind to the underlying facts."
They Wrote the Book on Throughput
They Wrote the Book on Throughput
Your principal business concern should not be with costs or labor.
The battle is Throughput.
Add the value and put it on a truck.
Practically there is no reason why something should be on your floor for 8 weeks, let alone 8 months. Quoting 50 weeks lead time and missing by 2.5 months weeks isn't a sign that you're a great salesman with a healthy backlog; it's a sign that you have a momentary monopoly in your sector, a choke point instead of a factory, and hey, everybody's just used to drowning in WIP because that's the way it's been ever since ___________ . Whatever!
If you're a high-mix, low-volume shop, Rajan Suri explains: "It's About Time"
Honorable mention to Goldratt and The Goal, since it's pertinent to at least half of the environments I've come across.
The Goal: Another $5 book that could fix your factory.
It's only $5 on AbeBooks, the best place to buy used books online.Page updated
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