Measuring and improving manufacturing plant performances: development and dissemination of a customized model for the italian industrial laundry sector

Within the Italian Industrial Laundry sector we are assisting to an outstanding industrialization process towed by the increase in technology and automation of machineries. This breakthrough highlights the need for an increase and a dissemination of industrial culture within the laundries. This paper concern the realization of a research project that aims to the define and spread a plant performance measurement and analysis system as a standard for the entire Italian Laundry Sector. In first the first part of the paper Authors will shortly describe the features of the proposed system. The second part of the paper will focus on the dissemination process, necessary to ensure the establishment of the proposed system and the increasing of the industrial culture within the sector.