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Understanding how and why Production Systems achieve their performance outcomes

TOC for Managing Production is a two-day program that investigates and demonstrates the cause of the typical problems of production:

• Long, and often unreliable lead times 

• Delayed deliveries

• Excessive work-in-process

• Higher than budgeted costs, etc.

The solution is derived using simulations and cause-and-effect logic.  Scheduling, synchronization, and control methods are taught, demonstrated, and discussed.  The characteristics of basic production workflows are covered, as well as the process of developing workflow maps.       

Benefits 
Attendees will learn how to: 

• Use the Five Focusing Steps and Drum-Buffer-Rope (DBR) to better manage any production-managed workflow, where work is viewed and managed in the context of processing rates and queue times, regardless of whether the workflow is that of production, manufacturing, repair, or logistics 

• More effectively identify queuing variability and reposition work level safety to the order level where it will better protect delivery performance  

• Synchronize workflow across multiple products with level loads on shared resources and how to gate the start of new production work  

• Use properly positioned and sized time buffers to manage and contain the effects of variability (i.e., setup times, process times, scrap, yield, rework, non-instant availability of resources (queuing), etc.)

• Use work order updates of work completed to make visible time buffer consumption for proper workflow prioritization and proactive planning or corrective actions 

• Use “Road Runner” resource behaviors to make more effective use of resources and to increase speed of workflow 

• Use VATI Flow Characteristics to more easily identify key flow control points in any workflow

• Identify which types of Planning, Scheduling, and Control actions will positively or negatively affect the performance outcomes of production-managed workflows 

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