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The Goal (1984)
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Make the bottlenecks work only on what will contribute to throughput today … not nine months from now. That's one way to increase capacity at the bottlenecks. The other way you increase bottleneck capacity is to take some of the load off the bottlenecks and give it to non-bottlenecks.
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So this is the goal: To make money by increasing net profit, while simultaneously increasing return on investment, and simultaneously increasing cash flow.
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If the goal is to make money, then (putting it in terms Jonah might have used), an action that moves us toward making money is productive. And an action that takes away from making money is non-productive.
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Fundamentally, a manager is looking to answer these questions: 'what to change?',' what to change to?' and ' how to cause the change?'
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There are three measurements which express the goal of making money perfectly well, but which also permit you to develop operational rules for running your plant. Their names are throughput, inventory and operational expense.
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If we reduce batch sizes by half, we also reduce by half the time it will take to process a batch. That means we reduce queue and wait by half as well. Reduce those by half, and we reduce by about half the total time parts spend in the plant. Reduce the time parts spend in the plant and our total lead time condenses. And with faster turn-around on orders, customers get their orders faster.
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If you don't manufacture a quality product all you've got at the end is a bunch of expensive mistakes.
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The goal is not to improve one measurement in isolation. The goal is to reduce operational expenses AND reduce inventories and increase throughput simultaneously.
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If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
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Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Born:
March 31, 1947
Died:
June 11, 2011
(aged 64)
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