TLS - TOC, Lean & Six Sigma

NEW: An on-site six day workshop in Atlanta, Georgia, October 13-18. This is a unique opportunity to learn this powerful methodology from the master himself.

Philip Marris summarizes in 4 minutes the Drum-Buffer-Rope production scheduling technique. "DBR" consists in launching the Work Orders according to the capacity of the bottleneck (the "Drum"), but also in such a way so as to ensure the parts arrive in advance in a queue feeding the bottleneck (the "Rope"). Such a controlled queue (the "Buffer") protects the bottleneck from upstream variability to make sure that it is never starved of work..

Building on Success 2018 Conference. Nampachi Hayashi joined Toyota Motor Company in 1966.

This video features a very senior and well respected member of the highest of inner circles in Toyota, and contains both video and testimony from and about Ohno-san and Goldratt, and makes it self-evident the role both have played.

Assembly is a key part of the industrial process. From joining parts with nuts and bolts to welding materials together, and even fabricating raw materials to supply the process, intelligent assembly management is a much-needed practice across the industry.

But assembly management will look quite different depending on the company. High-volume, low-mix manufacturers with a linear production line will experience different challenges than low-volume, high-mix manufacturers with production lines and workcells that experience irregular frequencies and different products.

Webinar by Dr. Efrat Goldratt-Ashlag about her new book “Goldratt’s Rule of Flow” on the 4th of July. The initial description of Critical Chain Project Management is over 25 years old. Dr. Efrat Goldratt-Ashlag’s recent book “Goldratt’s Rules of Flow” published in January 2023 is the new introduction to the subject. Efrat is Eliyahu Goldratt’s daughter and co-author with her father of the book “The Choice”. […] In 1997 Eliyahu Goldratt published the novel “Critical Chain”. Now his daughter, revisits the subject with all the lessons learnt over the past 2 decades. […] In this new, authoritative, description of what the Theory of Constraints’ approach to project management is, Efrat Goldratt-Ashlag proposes 9 rules of flow. […] she will also provide numerous anecdotes of how Critical Chain emerged and the pains and frustrations of her father, Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt, as he initially imagine, improved through feedback and perfected this revolutionary way of managing projects.

By focusing on the critical few at the expense of the trivial many, the quality of management improves and the probability of system success increases.

If he didn’t actually discover it, Archimedes certainly popularized the concept of leverage. In the third century BC, he designed war machines exploiting the lever for the armies of Greece in their pursuit of empire in the Mediterranean. As the quotation above implies, an understanding of leverage can enable one to apply force to something far out of proportion to one’s individual strength.

The concept of leverage applies to systems, too—particularly to organizational systems. But before we see how, let’s revisit the concept of a system.

This video describes the TOC success story at First Solar. Ray Immelman shares how First Solar, a company with the strategic objective of reducing the cost of solar electricity to a level competitive with conventional energy, created an enduring mindset of throughput versus cost world and implemented TOC tools and applications (Drum Buffer Rope, Critical Chain, Mafia Offer, Thinking Processes) in their operation to achieve incredible results. Ray provides background, lessons learned and more.

This webinar will be will be hosted by Thorsteinn Siglaugsson and Philip Marris.  [...] With the advent of large natural language models, artificial intelligence models such as Chat GPT can now be used to minimise the impact of bias, speed up and improve the clarity and rigour of logical analysis. The fast proliferation of such models also means that the ability to effectively prompt them, or communicate with them, will very soon become a critical skill in many functions. Those who have achieved a a good understanding of the rules of logic and ability to use structured analysis frameworks may therefore be expected to have an important advantage in the workplace. In his presentation, Logical Thinking Process expert Thorsteinn Siglaugsson provides insights into how large language models can be used in logical analysis, both to help with scrutiny, to suggest possible causes behind effects, to simplify and improve wording ...

The Toyota Way is a set of principles and behaviors that underlie the Toyota Motor Corporation’s managerial approach and production system. The 14 principles of the Toyota Way are as follows: Timed Content ⭐Toyota Way Principles 2nd Edition - Introduction - 00:00 🔴 1️⃣ Toyota Way Principle #1 Philosophy | Long-Term Systems Thinking - 3:34 🔴 2️⃣Toyota Way Principle #2 Process | Continuous Flow - 6:44 🔴 3️⃣Toyota Way Principle #3 Process | Pull System - 11:34 🔴 4️⃣Toyota Way Principle #4 Process| Heijunka (Levelling) - 14:34 🔴 5️⃣Toyota Way Principle #5 Process | Standardized Processes - 19:59 ....