What is Drum Buffer Rope? Drum Buffer Rope (DBR) is the Theory of Constraints scheduling process focused on increasing flow and Throughput by identifying and leveraging the system constraint. DBR was developed by Eliyahu M. Goldratt (Eli Goldratt), the father of...
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Velocity Scheduling System Reviews & Testimonials
Velocity Scheduling System Reviews I can’t believe we have already had over 500 companies go through or Velocity Scheduling System Coaching Program! Time really does fly. Who would have thought that custom job shops and machine shops could substantially improve...
The secret to improving operations is …
… changing your patterns. The patterns -- including our policies, procedures and measures -- we use to run our machine shops / job shops are perfectly getting us the results we are currently getting. So if we want to improve, we have to change our patterns. We have to...
Video 4 – Feb 2009 NTMA Keynote
Maximizing Profitability in Uncertain Times Want to see my NTMA speech titled -- Maximizing Profitability in Uncertain Times? I covered how to increase sales with a Mafia Offer and why operational improvements are needed to deliver the offer and how you have to...
Video 3 – Implementing the Velocity Scheduling System
A current description of how we implement VSS and how the Velocity Scheduling System Coaching Program works can be found on the ABOUT page. In this 30 minute video I give you an overview of what's included in the VSS and how the coaching program will work. Then I...
Be Unreasonable!
The Solution to Job Shop Scheduling In this second video in route to launching our Velocity Scheduling System we talk about the solution -- what should be we doing? And at the end I tell you exactly what to do as the first step. If you don't do this first step, there...
What You Accept You Get
Why are balancing capacity, efficiency and cost accounting EVIL? Watch this video to find out why I say balancing capacity, efficiency and cost accounting are evil. Then I'll review what you need to do to improve your shop. Please tell me what you think of the video...
