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Leadership for Job Shop Scheduling Part 2

May 8, 2012

In Part 1 I covered the Theory of Constraints first Law of Leadership — “Don’t be a sissy!” And I have to admit I was holding my breath as I clicked the send button. I was direct (as I tend to be) and I wasn’t sure what your response would be. It stirred up a lot of response. My heart

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Job Shop Management Scheduling Software?

April 25, 2012

I submit to you that there no software system capable of managing the schedule for a job shop optimally. In fact it is easy to be distracted with the idea that software will fix your issues, when the key to a good scheduling system is execution of a good system (not software that is). If you are looking for a

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Job shop Doubles profit with Velocity Scheduling System

April 18, 2012

We have an interesting challenge in that we are a custom job shop but are now adding some production that has annual requirements for 100,000 piece runs, and those runs will take a cell with 1 CNC lathe and 2 CNC mills at minimum running 20 hours each day. The rest of the shop changes over every other day or

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More rave reviews for Velocity Scheduling System for Job Shop Scheduling

April 15, 2012

More rave review for Velocity Scheduling System Coaching Program for highly custom job shop scheduling and machine shop scheduling. Since we are a custom shop, our biggest fear was not being able to fit into the “cookie cutter” way of manufacturing. Dr Lisa’s Velocity Scheduling System taught us how to slow things down to speed them up and our processes

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Leadership for Job Shop Scheduling

April 8, 2012

This video on how a bunny learned to herd sheep made me think of Easter and leadership: After that I did a little internet surfing on leadership. In a Google search there were 502,000,000 results for the word leadership. On the National Speakers Association’s website there are over 650 speakers who are experts on Leadership. I don’t know about you,

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Manufacturing and Theory of Constraints Expert Dr. Lisa Lang Featured in USA Today

January 19, 2012

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Manufacturing and Theory of Constraints Expert Dr. Lisa Lang Featured in USA Today and Other Major Media Outlets Dr. Lisa Lang, of the Science of Business, was recently featured in USA Today as well as major online media outlets, including Yahoo!Finance, Morningstar, CNBC, MarketWatch and many others. Green Valley, AZ – January 9, 2012 – “Dr. Lisa”

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Custom Machine Manufacturer gets results with Velocity Scheduling System

January 19, 2012

Bent River Machine, Inc. designs, builds, tests, delivers, and installs factory automation for companies in several different markets to help manufacturers become more efficient. Bent River also produces a custom line of photovoltaic, flat panel laminators, low flow pumps, conveyors, handlers, valves, and pick and place systems. They work at being a valued part of their customer’s team, through current

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Job Shop Scheduling featured in International Metal Tube Magazine

December 9, 2011

Dr Lisa’s Job Shop Scheduling article was featured in the Nov/Dec International Metal Tube magazine. The article explains the secret to getting on time and to reducing lead times for highly custom job shops and machine shops. You’ll be surprised to discover the secret. And, it’s not hard to do, but it is counter intuitive. Check out the article by

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Dr Lisa and Theory of Constraints featured in Wire Forming Technology International

December 4, 2011

Dr Lisa was featured in the Fall 2011 Wire Forming Technology International magazine with an article titled: Velocity Manufacturing: Stop focusing on efficiency and focus on velocity to reduce lead and queue times, and to increase lead-time predictability, on-time deliveries, quality and cash flow. The article explains how highly custom job shops and machine shops can schedule and change their

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Here’s why it’s hard to REALLY improve (Theory of Constraints Continuous Improvement)

November 13, 2011

It’s hard to improve because it’s difficult to get perspective on your own business. Here’s a demonstration of perspective … What’s this picture of: (Click the picture to see the answer.) And what’s this a picture of? (Click the picture to see the answer.) That demonstration is from the movie Soul Surfer. And I think it shows the power of

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