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Manufacturing guides built to be argued with
Five practical guides on ERP, Lean, manufacturing engineering, supply chain and quality. Each is written from fifteen years on real factory floors, and each is built to load into your AI as a decision tool.
Not just a PDF. An AI you can argue with.
Each guide is written twice over: once as a short book you read, and once as a set of rules an AI can apply. Load the PDF into a ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini project and it becomes a specialist that knows the method and will not let you skip the hard parts.
Built to disagree with you
Each guide pushes back: it tests whether your process is ready, demands numbers instead of estimates and refuses to let you spend your way past an unfixed problem.
Works with what you already use
No new software and no login. If you have a paid ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini plan, you can use any guide this afternoon.
The First Principles Factory
Free guide. Most manufacturers lose output and money to problems they cannot see because they are too close to the operation. This guide gives you a method to find them: strip any manufacturing problem back to physics, cost and constraint, then rebuild it.
Every chapter has a real example behind it, including a £700,000 cost reduction, an assembly line tripled from one module a day to three, and £272,000 a year found inside a few seconds of cycle time.
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Five problems, five working guides
£24 each. Twelve short chapters per guide, written from real engagements. Instant PDF download.
ERP Without the Disaster
The software is rarely the cause when ERP projects fail. This guide shows what decides whether a manufacturing system earns its money: fixing the operation before you buy, writing requirements before demonstrations and choosing the partner as carefully as the software.
12 chapters
- What ERP and MRP actually do
- Fix the operation before you buy
- Writing requirements before demonstrations
- The four data foundations
- Go-live without the chaos
- The ten-question readiness test
Lean That Actually Sticks
The tools that genuinely move output, and the six reasons improvement programmes quietly die. Includes a 12% productivity improvement with no new equipment and an assembly line taken from one module a day to three.
12 chapters
- The eight wastes
- Direct floor observation
- Flow and pull systems
- Standard work and kaizen
- Why improvement programmes fail
- A week-by-week plan to start
Manufacturing Engineering That Pays
Most factories do not need more machines. They need the ones they own to stop waiting. Find the seconds, stations and steps costing you output, including £272,000 a year found inside a few seconds of cycle time at half a million parts a week.
12 chapters
- Cycle time and takt time
- Finding the bottleneck
- Line balancing
- SMED changeover reduction
- Capacity planning
- Automation readiness
Supply Chain and Inventory That Pays
Find the cash you cannot see. On one site, £197,000 of a £984,000 stock holding was dead. Learn to find yours, release it and stop the shortages that stop your line.
12 chapters
- Finding dead stock
- Stock accuracy and ABC analysis
- Safety stock and reorder points
- Supplier performance
- Why MRP disappoints
- The four numbers worth measuring
Quality Engineering That Pays
Most quality problems are process problems nobody traced to the source. Build quality in, catch what escapes and stop paying twice. Includes how one manufacturer lifted right-first-time from 70% to 99.8% and recovered around £700,000.
12 chapters
- Cost of quality
- Right first time and FMEA
- Error-proofing and root cause
- Statistical process control
- ISO 9001
- What a recall really costs
The Complete Series
Five guides, sixty chapters and eighty-five pages covering quality, manufacturing engineering, supply chain, Lean and ERP. Save £30 against buying them separately.
Load all five into one AI project and it reasons across disciplines: tracing a defect to the process that causes it, to the changeover that forces the batch size, to the stock that batch size requires.
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Questions about the guides
What format are the guides in and how do I get them?
Every guide is a PDF, delivered as an instant download straight after payment. There is nothing to install and no account to create.
What does uploading a guide into an AI mean?
You load the PDF into a ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini project. The AI then uses the guide's method and examples to question your specific situation, testing readiness and challenging assumptions instead of giving generic advice.
Do I need a paid ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini plan?
You need a plan that supports project-level file uploads or persistent custom instructions, which the standard paid tiers of all three provide. The guides work with whichever you already use.
I have bought a guide. Where do I get support?
Message us on WhatsApp or email info@mnconsult.uk with the guide name and we will help directly, whether that is re-sending a link or applying the guide to your operation.
Prefer it done for you?
The guides get you started. We can finish the job on your floor.
