The Plastics Profitability Playbook.
Written by Jonathan R. Gaylord, principal of Plasteck Consulting, for owners and operators who want to understand how daily manufacturing decisions become financial results.
What the book covers.
The Playbook treats manufacturing profitability as an operating problem rather than a pricing problem. It works through the constraints that determine cost and capacity in a plastics operation — scrap and rework, cycle time, uptime and downtime, tooling condition, throughput, and the execution habits that decide whether improvements hold.
Each area is connected back to the questions executives are accountable for: what the loss costs, what it is worth to correct, and how improved operating performance can affect the financial performance of the business.
Who it is for.
Owners, presidents, general managers, and plant leaders in injection molding and related manufacturing — particularly those carrying responsibility for margin, capacity, and capital decisions without a large corporate staff behind them.
It is written in operating language, not consulting language, and assumes the reader has to make decisions on a real production floor.
The Profitability Stack™.
Manufacturing profitability builds from the operating floor upward. The Profitability Stack™ connects five layers of performance: Scrap Control, Cycle & Uptime, Compliance & Risk, Culture & Execution, and Enterprise Value.
Explore the Profitability Stack™ →Jonathan R. Gaylord.
Jonathan is the author of The Plastics Profitability Playbook and principal of Plasteck Consulting, where he works with small and mid-sized manufacturers on operational performance, capital projects, and manufacturing readiness.
The same operating philosophy.
The frameworks in the book are the ones Plasteck applies in the field. The Manufacturing Readiness Assessment™ is how that thinking is applied to a specific operation, and the Profitability Stack™ summarizes the structure behind it.
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Apply the Playbook to your own operation.
The Manufacturing Readiness Assessment™ applies the same operating principles to a specific operation: where performance is being lost, what the business impact is, and which opportunities should be addressed first.
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