Best-In-Class Knowledgebase for Process Industries

Membership of MAX-SERV entitles your company to access Best-In-Class Knowledgebase for process industries. The knowledgebase contains information about the best-in-class technology applications, best practices and industrial case studies.

The Best-In-Class Knowledgebase gives your company up to the minute information from MAX-SERV experts who have first hand experience in achieving manufacturing excellence through the deployment of new technologies and methodologies. Reports are based on real world implementations of the latest technologies and methodologies covering topics like technological impact versus cost, pay-back time, practical usability; known applications, sources of supply, availability, likely development times and examples of comparable offerings.

With the insights from the knowledgebase, your company can build a plan based on the practices of many top companies, taking the best from the best and applying it to your company's culture and current business. Advanced manufacturing enhances the reliability and smooth operation of facilities by all possible means including improved working practices, wider-spread use of standards, improved plant reliability, specialist training of operatives, use of statistical process control, use of real time simulations and predictions, etc.

Classification

The Best-In-Class Knowledgebase categorises data by industry type and subject area and provides information on the state-of-art enabling technologies, which can be used to improve performance of the plant and the company.

Subject Areas have been carefully selected in order to cover every aspect of the manufacturing world.

Technology Watch

The technology watch insights are based on the collective knowledge of suppliers, consultants and research institutions at the cutting edge of future developments. The contributor's specialist areas include:

• Software Systems Integration, Logistics & Knowledge Systems
• Benchmarking & Gap Analysis
• Business Analysis
• Enterprise Integration
• Production Efficiency, Process Design & Sustainability
• Systems & Business Modelling
• Industrial & Statistical Process Control
• Automation & Mechanical Systems Reliability
• Human Aspects.

The sources for the technology watch include journals, periodicals, technical magazines, web sites, etc, and the archive is regularly updated by Max-Serv partners. Real world issues articulated by clients of suppliers drive the content of the knowledgebase and the subject areas that are researched. Research for implementation cases will be analysed and synthesised to highlight trends, findings, and insights into manufacturing excellence in process industries and documents will be generated in this way. This research methodology employed by MAX-SERV ensures valuable original content that is available based on membership.

Case Studies

In addition, membership entitles you to access the case studies compiled by business school experts in consultation with manufacturers and technology suppliers. The case studies take a critical look at implementation and the lessons learned. The case study evaluations look at how implementation progressed and reports will highlight

• Financial aspects- ROI, payback, etc
• Business impacts- value in profit terms
• Management issues
• Investment implications - is it worth doing.

Each report is 3-4 pages.

Use

MAX-SERV will nominate a person from our service support team to consult you in the searching and interpretation of the results. Your MAX-SERV contact person searches the database based on your instructions and preferences by suitable keywords on Subject Area, by Industry Sector and by Methodology. The end result of the search will be a list of related documents. The documents focus on the practices, systems and processes that companies use to achieve excellence with quantitative data on metrics where relevant allowing comparisons of performance with the best. Best practice implementation reports will be supported by a comprehensive collection of supplemental documents on the methods used to apply the technology of interest.

To join MAX-SERV and get access to the Best-In-Class Knowledgebase please contact our helpdesk. The contact details are presented in the 'contact us' section of our web site.