Bottom Line Automation Book

	List of Figures	ix
	List of Abbreviations	xi
	Acknowledgments	xiii
	Foreword: A Solution Without a Problem	xv
Chapter 1	The Drive to Economic Performance	1
	Globalization--What It Takes to Survive	1
	Pathway to Performance	4
	The Technology Trend	5
	The Quality Trend	8
	The Accounting Trend	10
	The Convergence	15
	Notes	15
Chapter 2	Technology and the Bottom Line	17
	The Technology Trend	17
	Technology for Manufacturing	18
	Technology for Technology	21
	Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM)--A Noun or a Verb?	28
	CIM in the Process Industries	29
	Lights Out Manufacturing	33
	Labor and Education	36
	Technology for the Bottom Line	43
	Notes	52
Chapter 3	Quality and the Bottom Line	53
	The Quality Trend	53
	Quality for Manufacturing	55
	SQC in Manufacturing	59
	Quality for Technology	64
	SQC Fever in the Process Industries	65
	Quality for the Bottom Line	68
	The Convergence of Lean Manufacturing and Quality Improvement	73
	Lean Manufacturing Concepts	74
	Lean Process Plants	76
	Notes	79
Chapter 4	Cost Accounting and the Bottom Line	81
	The Cost Accounting Trend	81
	Cost Accounting and Manufacturing	83
	Cost Management Systems	91
	Accounting for the Bottom Line	94
	Dynamic Performance Measures	102
	Dynamic Performance Measures and Accounting	108
	Notes	117
Chapter 5	The Convergence	121
	The Technology Trend and Dynamic Performance Measures	122
	The Quality Trend and Dynamic Performance Measures	124
	The Accounting Trend and Dynamic Performance Measures	126
	The Convergence	128
	A New Management Paradigm	129
	Notes	132
Chapter 6	Case Studies	135
	Introduction	135
Case Study 1	Dynamic Performance Measure Program at a Major Pharmaceutical Company	136
Case Study 2	Dynamic Performance Measures and Culture at Dynegy Midstream Services	150
	Lessons Learned	155
	Notes	158
	Bibliography	159
	Index	171