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The TOC Buffers

11 November 2017, Oded Cohen   Last Thursday (9th November, 2017), I gave a presentation in the 35th TOPA Conference in Vilnius, Lithuania on TOC Buffers. Discussions that followed the presentation have brought me to realize that there is some misunderstanding of the TOC Buffers. The word/term Buffer is commonly used today as reserve, on top […]

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A riddle on product development projects to think about! Part 1

05 January 2016, Jelena Fedurko A long-standing TOC colleague offered a riddle to solve: Situation: A factory has many projects to do.  Some are the industrialization of new products that they can be produced effectively. Some are improvement projects for speed, capacity, quality, cost reduction, capacity expansions. For the moment assume that the factory/company decides […]

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A riddle on product development projects to think about! Part 2

Read Part 1 06 January 2016, Jelena Fedurko I got a clarification for the riddle as presented in Part 1: “Just one big BUT!! There is a resource conflict. The process engineers in the factories are responsible for both types of projects. New products require new/modified processes. Existing products require improvements – speed, quality, capacity, […]

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The Five Focusing Steps, the Green Curve and the Red Curve. Part 2

Read Part 1  13 January 2016, Oded Cohen This post is the response to Alejandro Fernandez’s comment to the post The Five Focusing Steps, the Green Curve and the Red Curve -Part 1, on 10 January 2016, that says: “Looking the green and red curve I wonder about thinking – and remembering Eli Goldratt presentation – […]