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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 The Goal will show you how to quiet the noise.
The Goal exposes the uncomfortable truth: traditional efficiency-improvement practices cause the operational problems they are designed to solve.
The constant fire-fighting. The regular replanning of the schedule. Inflated WIP and frequent rework. Poor performance. And, sub-optimal profitability.
More importantly, The Goal describes a solution—a five step process that proceeds from a profound observation of the nature of reality—a process that any smart production manager can implement within weeks (not months)!
This solution enables you to rapidly increase throughput, turn inventory into cash, and kick the expediting habit for good!
Every shop floor is made up of operations with finite capacities, dependencies and variability.
No one will argue with that, right! However, traditional improvement practises embrace finite capacities but ignore dependencies and variability.
More importantly, they ignore the toxic combination of dependences AND variability within a capacity-balanced plant where delays compound delays until you’re overwhelmed by a massive backlog of unfinished, overdue orders.
The Goal 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.
More, the only hope for salvation is to deliberately unbalance it!
The Goal shows that 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.
You can easily determine the placement, size and make-up of these queues using the ultimate source of management intelligence: your bottleneck (or constraint).
With strategic WIP queues, it becomes possible to manage the production and release of work so the constraint always has work.
And with the knowledge that 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!
How the single-minded pursuit of efficiency coupled with an obsession with super-granular planning cause late delivery and a dramatic contraction in plant capacity.
Why improving throughput must be the number one production objective, not reducing cost or improving efficiency.
Why bottlenecks are necessary and must be managed, not eliminated.
How to use The Five Focusing Steps and the Drum-buffer-rope system to discover and manage your system bottlenecks.
Why preventing overproduction is crucial to success.
Why Cost Accounting practises are a disease that destroys throughput, ruins on-time delivery and undercuts profitability.
How you can fix your plant problems without expensive scheduling software but a simple whiteboard marker, and a piece of paper.
The Goal 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.
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