Is the OEE (Overall Equipment Efficiency) Metric a good thing?
Wednesday, 08 May 2019
At first glance, how can it be bad. After all, the more we get out of our expensive equipment and employees the lower the cost of our product. The lower the cost of our product, the more money we make from a sale. The market does not always play our game. We can only sell
- Published in Guestpost
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The Quickest Way to Improved Flow 2: Fixing the right mistakes
Wednesday, 17 August 2016
In the first part of this series, we explained why flow should be the main goal of every organization, and introduced the Four Concepts of Flow developed by Dr. Goldratt. Let us now look at how Dr. Barnard questioned and expanded on them.1 Proponents of the Theory of Constraints will no doubt wonder: what happened
- Published in Theory of Constraints
The Quickest Way to Improved Flow 1: Flow as the Main Goal of Operations
Wednesday, 03 August 2016
The importance of “Flow” – that is, the unimpeded flow of work through operations – crops up again and again in our work – you may have seen previous posts on the topic on this blog. Dr. Alan Barnard, CEO of Goldratt Research Labs, dedicated an interesting presentation1 to this concept at the most recent
- Published in Theory of Constraints