Manufacturing systems don't exist in a vacuum, isolated from the rest of the company, but they are often managed that way. A truly effective, highly competitive manufacturing company integrates its manufacturing, marketing, sales, purchasing, and financial functions into a well-coordinated whole. Manufacturing at Warp Speed: Optimizing Supply Chain Financial Performance explains in detail how to coordinate all these functions to maximize sales revenue while controlling inventory and overhead costs. Ultimately, the effects of applying the new Simplified-Drum-Buffer-Rope (DBR II) introduced by the authors include dramatically faster manufacturing cycle times, shorter order-to-delivery lead times, higher on-time delivery reliability, and better customer satisfaction.
The book gives you everything a typical production professional needs to implement this new DBR approach. A supplemental feature - the Management Interactive Case Study Simulator (MICSS) - is included with the book. Available for download via the CRC Press website, the simulator sets up a virtual company where you can test and practice the processes you learn in the book before implementing them in your organization. The book and software together constitute the complete package for learning how to streamline manufacturing operations.
The first book available on second generation Drum-Buffer-Rope, Manufacturing at Warp Speed: Optimizing Supply Chain Financial Performance describes the simplest, most efficient methods for reducing manufacturing cycle time and increasing the speed of manufacturing yet devised. Fully illustrated, with numerous examples, case studies, and manufacturing scenarios, the book is so easy to read that even the novice can understand it. Correct use of this new method practically assures that your company has the competitive advantage.
Preface
Introduction
Part I : Managing System Constraints
Chapter 1 : Systems Thinking: The Foundation
Chapter 2 : Principles and Tools of the Theory of Constraints
Chapter 3 : Assessing System Success
Chapter 4 : Constraint Management Tools
Chapter 5 : How Work Flows Through a Manufacturing Process
Part II : Traditional Drum-Buffer-Rope
Chapter 6 : Applying the Theory of Constraints to Manufacturing
Chapter 7 : The "Simple" Production Organization
Chapter 8 : Operations
Chapter 9 : Traditional Buffer Management: The DBR-I Control Mechanism
Chapter 10 : Drum-Buffer-Rope (DBR) and Manufacturing Resource Planning
Part III : Simplified Drum-Buffer-Rope
Chapter 11 : Simplified Drum-Buffer-Rope (S-DBR)
Chapter 12 : Controlling Uncertainty and Variation: The S-DBR Approach
Chapter 13 : Managing Excess Capacity
Part IV : Optimizing Decisions
Chapter 14 : Throughput-Based Decision Support
Chapter 15 : Drum-Buffer-Rope (DBR) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
