by Lea Strickland | Mar 16, 2011 | Glossary
A conceptual framework that a “rope” links thee first operation in a process to the slowest machine/operation (the bottleneck/constraint) in the process; this creates a gap in the process in front of the bottleneck/constraint resource for a buffer to...
by Lea Strickland | Mar 16, 2011 | Glossary
The aspects of the system that are to be measured for determining a performance; two kinds; failure to do things that were supposed to be done and doing things that weren’t supposed to be done.
by Lea Strickland | Mar 16, 2011 | Glossary
The operating expenses over which the local area has full control; no allocated costs are included in the measure; requires creation of a “plant central” department for accumulation of costs at the plant level that are not controllable at department...
by Lea Strickland | Mar 16, 2011 | Glossary
The bottleneck constraint that limits the entire process’s throughput.
by Lea Strickland | Mar 16, 2011 | Glossary
The commonly referred to “Murphy”s Law” that if something can go wrong it usually will.
by Lea Strickland | Mar 16, 2011 | Glossary
The time it takes to produce the product without expediting or other special activities to get the product through the system, should include a “Murphy” factor.
