“STEP 1. Identify the system’s bottlenecks. (After all it wasn’t too difficult to identify the oven and the NCX10 as the bottlenecks of the plant.) STEP 2. Decide how to exploit the bottlenecks. (That was fun. Realizing that those machines… — Eliyahu M. Goldratt Copy Share Image
“More importantly, our software worked. I don't just mean that it didn't bump, or that it performed according to the written specifications, or that… — Eliyahu M. Goldratt Copy Share Image
“They’re measurements which express the goal of making money perfectly well, but which also permit you to develop operational rules for running your plant,”… — Eliyahu M. Goldratt Copy Share Image
“The entire bottleneck concept is not geared to decrease operating expense, it’s focused on increasing throughput.” — Eliyahu M. Goldratt Copy Share Image
“I write down the three measurements which Lou and I agreed are central to knowing if the company is making money: net profit, ROI… — Eliyahu M. Goldratt Copy Share Image
“Operational expense,” he says. “Operational expense is all the money the system spends in order to turn inventory into throughput.” — Eliyahu M. Goldratt Copy Share Image
“any doubt what goes on. I’m puzzling over how to do this when” — Eliyahu M. Goldratt Copy Share Image
If you don't manufacture a quality product all you've got at the end is a bunch of expensive mistakes. — Eliyahu M. Goldratt Copy Share Image
Why not make the work easier and more interesting so that people do not have to sweat? The Toyota style is not to create… — Eliyahu M. Goldratt Copy Share Image
The goal is not to improve one measurement in isolation. The goal is to reduce operational expenses AND reduce inventories and increase throughput simultaneously. — Eliyahu M. Goldratt Copy Share Image
“What we know now,” I tell him, “is that we shouldn’t be looking at each local area and trying to trim it. We should… — Eliyahu M. Goldratt Copy Share Image
“What you’re saying is that making an employee work and profiting from that work are two different things.” — Eliyahu M. Goldratt Copy Share Image
I say an hour lost at a bottleneck is an hour out of the entire system. I say an hour saved at a non-bottleneck… — Eliyahu M. Goldratt Copy Share Image
