TLS = Open TOC + Good Lean + Good Six Sigma. Presentation by Philip Marris at the TOCICO annual congress in Frankfurt. It is argued that TLS enables companies to improve faster and reach even higher levels of performance than using one of the elements alone. Each component is redefined: Good Lean = Toyota = Growth (no downsizing) + Mindset + NPD Bad Lean = A process of continuous downsizing. Open TOC = TOC is powerful, it is necessary but not sufficient. Closed TOC = TOC is the best, TOC is the only way. Good Six Sigma = Data + VOC + Focused DOE projects. Bad Six Sigma = A lot of belts, a lot of projects, few results.
Half a million views of Marris Consulting’s videos. Thank you to all our followers. 10 years of hard work. Thank you to all the team. Videos mostly about Theory Of Constraints and Lean and Lean Six Sigma. Client testimonials, tutorials, presentations, expert interviews, etc.
[...] the cyber-physical systems touted as a key component in Industry 4.0. Furthermore, we also found that the meaning of digital twin had drifted away from detailed simulations of physics and chemistry as part of a cyber-physical system for process control.
Instead, a digital twin is now an animation of part movements and machine status in a line for production control. This has effectively disabled discussions of digital twins in the context of cyber-physical systems, which matters in stabilizing ...
The supply chain world has developed powerful algorithms, but they are running on fuzzy data. What’s a manager to do?
The supply chain world loves technology. We love data, big, if possible. Data scientists are on fire, machine learning models are heating up the data centers. Every day, we shuffle a lot of data and run algorithms, starting with our good old MRP.
However, our algorithms are primarily crunching fuzzy data.
Let’s adjust our glasses and face reality:
Our forecasts are estimates, full of uncertainties
Our lead times — manufacturing, procurement, transportation — are estimates
Our production capacities, our yields, are estimates
Our consumption of materials in our BOMs are estimates
A series of short videos about the Theory Of Constraints (Constraint Management) applied to Information Technology. What is different when you apply the ideas of TOC to I.T.? What kind of constraints will you find? What relationship with Agile approaches? What about hardware ? Software ? Networks ? Architecture ? Technical debt & legacy systems ? Etc. Expert John Ricketts, author of 2 best-selling books on the subject is interviewed by Philip Marris.
In general, I.T. budgets are tight and goes mainly to essential projects that can not be postponed, such as operations, mandatory projects, maintenance of legacy systems, and regulatory compliance. This leaves little budget for new projects.
FIFO (first in, first out) is one of the simplest and most basic ideas in manufacturing, and yields significant benefits. It is so simple that I don't even want to call it a tool, since it is one of the fundamentals in manufacturing (and many other areas). In this post I want to take a
Logic is a key underlying element of both Lean (scientific thinking) and the Theory Of Constraints (Thinking Processes).
An online e-Learning course by Bill Dettmer to teach the Logical Thinking Process is being on Monday 12th September 2022. This methodology - which is part of the Theory Of Constraints - suggests a cycle that includes the building of five logic trees which are interdependent: the Goal Tree, the Current Reality Tree, the Evaporating Cloud, the Future Reality Tree and the Prerequisite Tree.
On July 21 2022 Taiichi Ohno was inducted in the Automotive Hall of Fame. Ohno, a Japanese engineer and former Toyota executive, helped establish the fabled Toyota Production System (TPS), which revolutionized not only the Japanese automotive industry, but global vehicle manufacturing as well. Chris Nielsen, executive vice president of product support and chief quality officer for Toyota Motor North America, attended the event in Detroit, saying: “TPS has not just transformed automotive manufacturing; its reach goes far beyond and knows no bounds in having a positive effect on society.
Running smooth operations is difficult enough in peacetime. But it becomes much trickier if you are located in an area experiencing an active armed conflict. Yet, there are many active armed conflicts on the world, like Ukraine, Myanmar, Afghanistan, and others, many of which have been
”Live the journey of a tech start-up grown to a hypergrowth company through the eyes of its founders as they learn that “the magic of digital is the magic of the Wizard of Oz: there is machinery behind the curtain.” To deliver on the promise to customers of a seamless purchase of new and preowned cars, they turn to lean and develop the problem-solving capability of each team member.” — Jeffrey K. Liker, author of The Toyota Way series.
QRQC or Quick Response Quality Control leans on three fundamental elements: "The Three Reals”, or “San Gen Shugi”, Quick Response, and Control. Read more about this powerful practice in this post.
McDonald’s in France have over 1,400 restaurants. The French market is recognized as the most difficult market in the world because clients eat at very specific times and the culinary expectations are very high. It has for many years been one of the most innovative of McDonald’s markets. When rolling out the new “Made For You” global operational model they took the opportunity to rethink how they managed operations in their restaurants. Using a mixture of Theory Of Constraints, Lean and common sense they redefined how they managed flow. As a result client service times were significantly reduced and global efficiency increased. It also made their process robust, easily absorbing micro rushes that had historically been significant disrupting factors. The design of the new system will be described as well as the challenge of rolling it out to tens of thousands of people in many small facilities and how, after this successful proof of concept in a very demanding environment, it was decided to implement this approach in other geographies. It will highlight among other things what it means to apply the Theory Of Constraints in this kind of services industry. Subscribe today and visit www.tocico.org for more content like this.
The theory of constraints, agile and open organization meet to create the 21st century resilient company according to an ISO standard The Theory of constraints, Agile and Open Organization (TAO) brings the approaches, the tools and the methodologies to build the resilient company for this century. Change must be understood as the norm, not as the exception. — Eli Goldratt Some days ago, I was discussing with the director for project finance of a large bank. She told me that the most important characteristic for a company applying for a project loan is now resilience. One of my domains of consultancies is business continuity and resilience, and during the conversation, I discovered that this director was not aware that resilience and business continuity are now covered by ISO standards.
🔉Listen to Dr. Jeffrey Liker explains Toyota Way to Lean Leadership Chapter 1 Summary [...]
💡 "The five values that define the Toyota Way are the spirit of challenge, kaizen, genchi genbutsu, teamwork, and respect."
💡 "Based on what we’ve seen and experienced at Toyota, we created a multistage leadership model that we think accurately captures the Toyota approach to leadership—both what it means to be a leader at Toyota and how to go about developing leaders"
💡 "Only after leaders at all levels have developed to a high level are they capable of adapting to the frequent and major changes that the environment will throw at them"
Source: Jeffrey Liker ; Convis, Gary L.. The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership: Achieving and Sustaining Excellence through Leadership Development. McGraw Hill LLC. Kindle Edition.
[2012 reference book on the subject] [...] QRQC (Quick Response Quality Control) is a major innovation in the field of Quality management. It is combining management and attitude in order to solve in a simple and logical way most of the production and functional problems. Valeo, one of the world leading equipment suppliers has been using QRQC for over 10 years. QRQC had allowed the Valeo Group to change its quality measurement scale from PPM (Parts Per Million) to PPB (Parts Per Billion).
Quality Control is very often the bottleneck in operations today. […] One of the reasons that leads to Q.C. having too much work is the continual increase in the quantity and complexity of quality controls of products. This is true whatever the industry, whether it be aeronautics, software development, luxury goods manufacturing, or the food industry. […] We will discuss why having a bottleneck in the quality domain is a very bad situation. […] We will present a number of solutions that can easily be applied to improve these sorts of bottlenecks and hence the Throughput of the company.
Debra Smith discusses why software is necessary to manage flow whether you are "doing" Lean, Theory Of Constraints, Six Sigma or DDMRP. Debra Smith is one of the 3 key founders and developers of the DDMRP approach (Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning). She is interviewed by Philip Marris, the founder and CEO of Marris Consulting in an improvised video in Chicago during a TOCICO annual conference. Debra is the co-founder of the Constraints Management Group a consulting firm with one of the longest Theory Of Constraints in operations track records.
Debra Smith discusses why software is necessary to manage flow whether you are "doing" Lean, Theory Of Constraints, Six Sigma or DDMRP. Debra Smith is one of the 3 key founders and developers of the DDMRP approach (Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning). She is interviewed by Philip Marris, the founder and CEO of Marris Consulting in an improvised video in Chicago during a TOCICO annual conference. Debra is the co-founder of the Constraints Management Group a consulting firm with one of the longest Theory Of Constraints in operations track records.
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