1st Edition
Manufacturing at Warp Speed Optimizing Supply Chain Financial Performance
376 Pages
by
CRC Press
376 Pages
by
CRC Press
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Manufacturing systems don't exist in a vacuum, isolated from the rest of the company, but they are often managed that way. A truly effective, highly competitive manufacturing company integrates its manufacturing, marketing, sales, purchasing, and financial functions into a well-coordinated whole. Manufacturing at Warp Speed: Optimizing Supply Chain Financial Performance explains in detail how to... Read more
Introduction
Systems Thinking: The Foundation
Principles and Tools of the Theory of Constraints
Assessing System Success
Constraint Management Tools
How Work Flows Through a Manufacturing Process
Applying the Theory of Constraints to Manufacturing
The "Simple" Production Organization
Operations
Traditional Buffer Management: The DBR-I Control Mechanism
Drum-Buffer-Rope (DBR) and Manufacturing Resource Planning
Simplified Drum-Buffer-Rope (DBR-II)
Controlling Uncertainty and Variation: The DBR-II Approach
Managing Excess Capacity
Theory of Constraints and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Throughput-Based Decision Support
Appendices
Systems Thinking: The Foundation
Principles and Tools of the Theory of Constraints
Assessing System Success
Constraint Management Tools
How Work Flows Through a Manufacturing Process
Applying the Theory of Constraints to Manufacturing
The "Simple" Production Organization
Operations
Traditional Buffer Management: The DBR-I Control Mechanism
Drum-Buffer-Rope (DBR) and Manufacturing Resource Planning
Simplified Drum-Buffer-Rope (DBR-II)
Controlling Uncertainty and Variation: The DBR-II Approach
Managing Excess Capacity
Theory of Constraints and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Throughput-Based Decision Support
Appendices
Biography
Eli Schragenheim, H William Dettmer
