What a plant turnaround actually is, and what it is not Before you change anything: the first two weeks Stabilize cash before you improve anything Get visibility you can trust Fix the decision layer Attack margin in order of speed Deal with the portfolio drag Build the operating cadence that holds the gains The capability […] Read More

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Executive summary: Predictive maintenance pays for itself only where downtime costs you output. On a constraint, an hour of unplanned downtime is throughput the system never recovers, so preventing it converts almost directly into money. On a machine with spare capacity, preventing the identical hour returns nothing to the system. This guide shows how to […] Read More

Executive summary: Throughput accounting measures three numbers instead of allocating overhead: throughput (price minus truly variable cost), investment (money tied up in inventory and assets), and operating expense (everything else). It exists because traditional cost accounting rewards building inventory and misprices products, pushing plants to overproduce and to chase the wrong orders. This guide shows […] Read More

Executive summary: Plan for Every Part is a single governed record for every part number in your operation, covering usage, lead time, sourcing risk, packaging, storage location, and replenishment rule. It exists because uniform inventory policy is the fastest way to tie up cash in the wrong parts while starving the ones that protect your […] Read More

Executive summary: Takt time is the rhythm of customer demand: available production time divided by customer demand for that period. It is not how fast your machines run and not how long an order takes to reach the customer. Those are cycle time and lead time, and confusing the three is one of the most […] Read More

Executive summary: Drum-Buffer-Rope is the scheduling mechanism of Theory of Constraints. The drum is the constraint, which sets the beat for the whole plant. The buffer is protective time in front of it so it never starves. The rope is the signal that releases material into the plant only at the rate the drum consumes […] Read More

Executive summary: SMED (Single-Minute Exchange of Die) cuts changeover time from hours to minutes by separating work that must happen while the machine is stopped from work that can happen while it runs. On a constraint, every minute of changeover is throughput you never get back, so a changeover cut there converts almost directly into […] Read More

Best Buy has closed more US stores than it opened every single year since 2012. This year that ends. The company told investors it expects net domestic store growth for the first time in more than a decade. Here is the part worth your attention. The stores driving that growth are roughly a third the […] Read More