In the world of manufacturing, efficiency is paramount. One of the biggest hindrances to a smooth manufacturing process is what’s known as a ‘bottleneck’. This term refers to the point in the production line where work accumulates faster than it can be processed. Fortunately, scheduling software has emerged as a powerful tool to address and… READ MORE
These articles are portions of a lecture presented to APICS by our friend Gene Caiola. In our last segment titled “Finite Scheduling – Not So Easy To Be Successful” we left off after realizing that Finite Scheduling was a bit more work than it was worth… Protected Flow Manufacturing – a Revolutionary New Approach The… READ MORE
Come by and visit Dave Luckner and Protected Flow Manufacturing today at EASTEC in Springfield, MA – we’re in booth #5828
This is the second of four blogs on Production Scheduling and the 3 Shop Floor Fundamentals. In the first, I described how I met a VP of Operations who, in spite of having an ERP with scheduling functionality in it, is struggling to answer these questions, which I call the 3 Shop Floor Fundamentals: In this… READ MORE
Manufacturing and thoroughbred race horses – what do they have in common? During a tour of the Kentucky Derby Museum a couple of years ago, I learned that many of the fastest thoroughbred race horses have what are considered to be abnormally large hearts. Secretariat, the famous 1973 Triple Crown winner, who won the last… READ MORE
I was exhibiting recently at a national ERP user conference where the show attendees are users of several different manufacturing ERP systems. The messaging displayed at our tradeshow booth to these attendees is basically (and I’m paraphrasing here) – “We Can Fix Your Production Scheduling Problems!”. I Just Need To Be Able To Answer 3… READ MORE