The Goal
To make money
Increase Throughput
Reduce Operating Expenses
Decrease Inventory
Bottlenecks
Short of needed inventory
Too much unneeded inventory
breakdown of equipment
lack of communication
poor metrics at the beginning
Productivity?
Late shipments
Must identify
Need for a common goal
mapped out product flows
WIP buildup
Red/Green priority
Starting point but even Green became Red
Herbie
Move to front to set pace
Lighten load
as strong as weakest link
Compare gap to inventory
Mechanism for dealing with bottleneck
reducing down time
Reducing waiting time for inventory
minimizing batch sizes
Drum Buffer Rope
Pacing
Cost of a bottleneck vs cost of a non-bottleneck
Cost of an hour of the whole system