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The Production Solution
The Production Solution increases capacity dramatically and reduces lead-time and inventory dramatically. Our Production Solution is based on Eli Goldratt's TOC Production Solution.
Indicators
Demand exceeds capacity, lead-time is long and inventory is high.
Ultimate Goal
Dramatic increase in capacity on dramatically shorter lead-time and dramatically lower inventory levels.
Performance-Limiting Problem
Variation in capacity in different steps in different production flows, compounded by fluctuations in market demand.
Conventional Solution
Work longer shifts, buy more capacity and increase batch-size to increase efficiency everywhere.
Simple Breakthrough Solution
Maximise productivity at the bottleneck only - to match demand; reduce performance everywhere else to synchronise to it and protect only the bottleneck with an inventory buffer, removing all other inventory buffers.
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