Improve Performance in the Oil Industry

In his book, LEAN REFINING: How to Improve Performance in the Oil Industry, Lean Manufacturing expert Lonnie Wilson addresses the tremendous opportunities Lean can offer to achieve huge financial gains, while simultaneously improving morale, timeliness, quality, safety, reliability and environmental performance.

Wilson offers numerous examples of how lean methodologies may be applied, the gains that can be achieved and takes readers through a prescriptive process of implementation. LEAN REFINING is divided into 3 parts:

• Part I is specific to the topic of Lean Manufcaturing
• Part II addresses Lean Manufacturing in the oil industry in general and refining in particular
• Part III covers topics needed to understand how to implement, organize and roll out a Lean Transformation from the top down

LEAN REFINING offers an affiliated website that boasts tons of valuable information, including: forms and evaluations for such topics such as The 10 Lean Killers, The 6 Roll Out Errors, The 5 Precursors to a Lean Transformation, and more; samples of working documents such as A3s, Leader Standard Work and 5 Supervisory Tools, in both template form and completed; a comprehensive reading and reference list of nearly 500 resources, broken into topical material; and links to 3rd party websites where readers may download e-forms and other related information.

About The Author

Lonnie Wilson has an extensive business background that includes 20 years in manufacturing management with Chevron Oil Company. In 1990 he started Quality Consultants where clients include firms in manufacturing as well as the fields of education, healthcare and other service sectors. Quality Consultants serves small firms as well as Fortune 500 firms in North, South, Central America, and China.

Wilson is an expert in Lean Manufacturing techniques and applications. He not only instructs management professionals in the applications of these lean techniques; he is an on-the-floor and in-the-boardroom implementation professional. Wilson’s focus is to assist firms that are now struggling in their cultural transformations plus those that have struggled and failed to transform their company into a lean enterprise – and wish to try again.

His prior books include both the first and second editions of How to Implement Lean Manufacturing (McGraw Hill, 2015), as well as Lean Refining – How to Improve Performance in the Oil Industry, (Industrial Press, 2017). His most recent book is Sustaining Workforce Engagement (Routledge, 2019).

Wilson lives in El Paso, Texas. He loves to talk about lean, employee engagement, management principles, leadership, the teachings of Dr. Deming and all those peripheral topics related to lean manufacturing