Benchmarking in the Process Industries
Author(s): Munir Ahmad and Roger Benson
Publisher: IChemE
Publication Date: 01/01/1999
ISBN: 9780852955598
Extent: Softback 155 pages
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The first step to improving performance and competitiveness of a plant is to benchmark against the best in the world. Aimed at introducing the subject of benchmarking to the process industries and is based on practical experience of over 200 process plants. The book gives guidance on how to benchmark, where to find the benchmarks, how to quantify the gaps intended and suggests the impact of improving manufacturing in the process industries. It provides the framework, measures and industry world-class targets to allow organisations to maximise their potential.