Manufacturing Best Practices Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Manufacturing Best Practices Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Manufacturing Best Practices related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Manufacturing Best Practices specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Manufacturing Best Practices Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 993 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Manufacturing Best Practices improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 993 standard requirements:


1. Is your organization required to design and implement responses for every quality risk that has been identified?
   
   

2. Do your current methods of assessment still provide the necessary assurance of demonstrating learning outcomes?
   
   

3. Can a participating organization just submit a single solution to one part or parts of the call for solution?
   
   

4. How can consulting companies better implement good practices with regard to sustainable talent management?
   
   

5. Do corporate governance structure and capital structure matter for the performance of your organizations?
   
   

6. What role could internal audit play in improving the quality of the reported sustainability information?
   
   

7. Do you view development capabilities and an extension of the value chain as key competitive advantages?
   
   

8. What actions does your organization take to establish a culture that promotes a commitment to quality?
   
   

9. Is the strategy chosen for each goal appropriate for that functional requirement or quality attribute?
   
   

10. What is your organization doing to build a positive, high performing workplace and engaged workforce?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Manufacturing Best Practices book in PDF containing 993 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Manufacturing Best Practices self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Manufacturing Best Practices Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Manufacturing Best Practices areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Manufacturing Best Practices Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Manufacturing Best Practices projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Manufacturing Best Practices Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Manufacturing Best Practices project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Team Member Performance Assessment: How was the determination made for which training platforms would be used (i.e., media selection)?
   
   

2. Activity Duration Estimates: What are some general rules of thumb for deciding if cost variance, schedule variance, cost performance index, and schedule performance index numbers are good or bad?
   
   

3. Team Operating Agreement: Did you recap the meeting purpose, time, and expectations?
   
   

4. Cost Management Plan: Are non-critical path items updated and agreed upon with the teams?
   
   

5. Executing Process Group: How do you enter durations, link tasks, and view critical path information?
   
   

6. Scope Management Plan: The greatest degree of uncertainty is encountered during which phase of the Manufacturing Best Practices project life cycle?
   
   

7. Initiating Process Group: What areas does the group agree are the biggest success on the Manufacturing Best Practices project?
   
   

8. Quality Management Plan: Are best practices and metrics employed to identify issues, progress, performance, etc.?
   
   

9. Procurement Management Plan: Is the assigned Manufacturing Best Practices project manager a PMP (Certified Manufacturing Best Practices project manager) and experienced?
   
   

10. Stakeholder Management Plan: Are there unnecessary steps that are creating bottlenecks and/or causing people to wait?


 
Step-by-step and complete Manufacturing Best Practices Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Manufacturing Best Practices project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Manufacturing Best Practices project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Manufacturing Best Practices project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 Manufacturing Best Practices project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 Manufacturing Best Practices project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 Manufacturing Best Practices project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Manufacturing Best Practices project with this in-depth Manufacturing Best Practices Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Manufacturing Best Practices projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in Manufacturing Best Practices and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Manufacturing Best Practices investments work better.

This Manufacturing Best Practices All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.