Michiana APICS Fall Seminar
Overview:
Overview of Theory of Constraints for Industry Measurements  (Tell me how you measure me and I will tell you how I am going to behave) A  Standard Cost, Activity based Costing, Throughput Accounting B  Productivity and the "bottom line" with the TOC definition of productivity C  The Process of Ongoing Improvement   The TOC Process What do you mean by ongoing?   How do you define an improvement?   The fallacy of Pareto   What we should have learned from Dr. Deming Managing of Production A  Herbie and the Boy Scouts, the production analogy from The Goal B  Drum-Buffer-Rope, the derivative application (an Operations Research Breakthrough) C  Constraint Management Project Management (eg.. R&D, and Engineering) A  Historical performance to date of traditional project management methods B  Validity of "Critical path" paradigm C  A paradigm breakthrough improvement    Critical Chains    Investment Flush    Team Building Invisible Constraints (the invisible "Herbies") and the Three Questions A  "What to change?" B  "What to change to?" C  "How to cause the change?" Distribution Systems  (Goldratt Institute solution to the famous M.I.T. beer game) A  Application of the Thinking Process B  Use of Current Reality logic trees to define the root problem C  Solving the problem with Evaporating Clouds D  Checking the validity of the solution with Future Reality Tree logic E  How to make a good solution become reality Sales and Marketing A  The traditional paradigm approach B  A paradigm breakthrough solution Inducing the Organization to Improve Management (Human Resources) Skills Considerations (Examples of breakthrough solutions using the Thinking Process) A  Resolving conflicts B  Dealing with half-baked solutions C  Empowerment D  Teambuilding E-Business Applications A  Identify core problems that this new tool can address B  Carefully construct powerful solutions to enhance the skills needed to overcome core problems using these tools C  Ensure that the tools and their uses are understood by all Summary, and Questions & Answers
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