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Every day, you strive to maximise productivity. Efficiency numbers are up but On Time In Full (OTIF) is down.
You do your best to control costs by balancing capacities but you have to fight fires to get jobs out on time—and firefighting costs money.
You create detailed plans to ensure jobs complete on-time—then customers make last-minute changes or demand urgent jobs.
The fact is, the market is chaotic. But your shop floor should not be!
Your free copy of 'Release: The Potential' will show you how to quieten the noise and focus on the thing that really matters...your business Constraint!
'Release: The Potential' exposes the uncomfortable truth...
Continuous fire-fighting, frequent re-scheduling, inflated WIP, and constant re-work. Poor delivery performance, frustrated customers and sub-optimal profitability. Feel familiar?
These issues are often caused by one simple thing! An overall lack of understanding when it comes to your bottleneck. The one operation which affects the entire company's performance.
This book follows an implementation of a TOC solution within a Make-To-Order environment. Follow along to understand which tactics will help you squeeze the most output from your bottleneck operation, and in turn your entire system. Dramatically increase output, shorten lead-times and improve delivery performance - without the need for investment!
Every shop floor is made up of operations with finite capacities, dependencies and variability.
No one will argue with that, right? However, traditional improvement practices embrace finite capacities but ignore dependencies and variability.
More importantly, they ignore the toxic combination of dependencies AND variability within a capacity-balanced plant where delays compound delays until you’re overwhelmed by a massive backlog of unfinished, overdue orders...
'Release: The Potential' adopts the opposite approach. Instead of a theorist’s oversimplification, it embraces the true nature of reality as its starting point, arguing that a balanced plant must deteriorate rapidly into chaos.
The only hope for salvation is to deliberately unbalance it!
'Release: The Potential' shows that the key to doing this, without throwing caution to the wind, is to maintain a small number of strategically-located queues of WIP within your plant.
With strategic queues of WIP, it becomes possible to manage the production and release of work so the Constraint always work available.
With the knowledge that the shop output can only ever be the same as the output of your Constraint, it’s finally possible to meaningfully schedule the volume and sequence of jobs so more work gets out the door on-time!
Understand how the single-minded pursuit of efficiency coupled with an obsession with super-granular planning causes late delivery and a dramatic contraction in plant capacity.
Learn why improving Throughput must be the number one production objective, not reducing cost or improving efficiency!
Undertand why bottlenecks are necessary and must be managed, not eliminated.
And why preventing overproduction is crucial to success.
Ultimately, how you can fix your plant problems without expensive scheduling software but a simple whiteboard marker, and a piece of paper!
'Release: The Potential' also reveals that most manufacturing improvement initiatives fail because they break one (or all!) of the three principle rules of optimisation, planning and coordination.
These rules state that:
Any management system that breaks these rules will itself break down with drastic consequences for Throughput, on-time performance and profitability.