Manufacturing at Warp Speed: Optimizing Supply Chain Financial Performance / Edition 1

by Eli Schragenheim, H William Dettmer

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781574442939
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/28/2000
Series:	The CRC Press Series on Constraints Management , #19
Edition description:	BK&CD-ROM
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Eli Schragenheim, H William Dettmer

Table of Contents

Introduction. Systems Thinking: The Foundation. Principles and Tools of the Theory of Constraints. Assessing System Success. Constraint Management Tools. How Work Flows Through a Manufacturing Process. Applying the Theory of Constraints to Manufacturing Operations. Traditional Buffer Management: The DBR-I Control Mechanism. Drum-Buffer-Rope (DBR) and Manufacturing Resource Planning. Simplified Drum-Buffer-Rope (DBR-II). Controlling Uncertainty and Variation: The DBR-II Approach. Managing Excess Capacity. Theory of Constraints and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). Throughput-Based Decision Support. Appendices.

Editorial Reviews

Israeli and US consultants explain the Simplified Drum-Buffer-Rope as encompassing the simplest and most efficient methods for reducing manufacturing cycle time and increasing the speed of manufacturing. For both new and experienced managers, they provide many examples, case studies, and manufacturing scenarios. The disk, which requires Windows, allows users to set up a virtual company to test the processes described before implementing them. Warning: warp is not desirable when manufacturing wooden products. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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