Manufacturing Enterprise
Reference Model

No more starting from scratch.This book can help you speed process improvement efforts by more than 50%! Get a jump start on on improving your manufacturing enterprise with this unique book. Everything you need is right here. This book provides process improvememt teams with process templates to streamline the time it takes to analyze and redesign business processes. Inside, you'll find a a comprehensive, graphical model of best business processes in a typical US manufacturing company, as well as a process improvement primer, explaining the model and how to apply it. The companion CD rom includes an electronic version of the model and a viewer version of Wizdom's ProcessWorks!98^TM to access the model.

To improve organizational performance, you must improve your business process. You cannot improve until you bring it under control. You cannot bring it under control, much less improve it, until you have modeled the process and its internal business (data) rules.

Developed by Manufacturing Experts for manufacturing experts, business process improvement analysts - and their managers - in manufacturing firms of all shapes and sizes.

The Manufacturing Enterprise Reference Model represents Wizdom Systems' years of experience applying time-tested Business Process Reengineering tools and methods to manufacturing firms both large and small.

THIS BOOK FEATURES:	LEARN HOW TO:
The Manufacturing Enterprise Reference Model (represented by 30 diagrams, decomposed to the third level of detail, and has 30 pages of associated narrative test, describing all of the pertnent activities of the Manufacturing Enterprise Reference Model.)	Develop process improvement goals in half the time
Integrated glossary of terms, as well as the "where-used" identification of the specific diagram(s).	Test and evaluate improvement plans before you implement them
A "how to read an IDEF0 process model" and other tips	Guide your team through a successful process improvement project from start to finish
Solutions for operational effectiveness	Convert process models to application code
Modeling and analysis theory and techniques	Maximize operational effectiveness
WizdomWorks!TM and DataWorks!TM Viewers	Read, use, and develop activity models
ProcessWorks!98 Viewer software and Manufacturing Enterprise Reference Model CD Rom

The Manufacturing Enterprise Reference Model is available directly from Wizdom for $495 per single issue. Call in the U.S. 630-357-3000 for single issue or quantity pricing.




ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Wizdom Systems, Inc. is a leader in Business Process Reengineering and Knowledge Management products and services. Founded in 1986, the company has worked with healthcare industry professionals in the areas of HL7, Home Healthcare, ICU - Patient Flow, Medical Logistics, Health Insurance Services, Small Physician Practice, and Data Flow. Wizdom is a member/advisor of the Health Informatics Initiative, and endeavor to build the fundamental arthctecture, methods and tools for a more universally accesssible healthc informatics infrastructure. Wizdom's headquarters is in Naperville, IL, with a National Capital office in Alexandria, VA.

For more information call (630)357-3000 X3084 and ask for Robin Davies, or e-mail robind@wizdom.com.