Throughput, flow and constraint removal
We work on the physics of the production system: where work queues, why it queues, and what changes when the constraint moves. The objective is a shop that can state its true capacity and defend a promise date.
Conditions we hear first
- Promise dates are set by negotiation rather than by capacity
- Overtime rises without a matching rise in shipped volume
- Work-in-process accumulates in front of the same cells every week