Production
Using TOC at your facility to improve throughput and shorten delivery times
Are customers demanding better lead times? Are last minute orders making scheduling impossible? Then you want to work with PMC to find out ways to shorten your lead times, reduce inventory, and improve your profitability. Our TOC-ICO consultants will help you show how the concepts from The Goal by Eli Goldratt, can help you reach these goals. Start with our two-day workshop, then work with PMC to make these objectives a reality. Required: TOC101
Integration with Lean and/or Six Sigma
Are your Lean and Six Sigma efforts not meeting management's expectations? Are there too many action plans and not enough results? Or are you thinking about Lean, but want to "jump start" its implementation to maximize its return on effort? Then you need to work with PMC's TOC, Lean, and Six Sigma experts to learn how these tools work synergistically to maximize the results and minimize the effort. We'll show you how to focus with TOC, reduce waste with Lean, and shrink variability with Six Sigma. This comprehensive approach has been demonstrated to have far superior results than just implementing Lean or Six Sigma alone.
Data Collection to Find Bottlenecks
In most manufacturing systems, the biggest hurdle to finding the bottleneck is knowing what to look for. Machines with the highest utilization and the largest buffer before them are excellent candidates for bottleneck identification. But large, complex systems are more difficult to analyze, and conventional methods may be insufficient. Use PMC's expertise and that of their business partners to help design and install a simple, straightforward system for collecting data and analyzing bottlenecks. This data is invaluable for also predicting future bottlenecks, and for designing future manufacturing systems. Contact PMC for more information on how to effectively install a data collection that will actually pay for itself in months, not years. Required: TOC101
Using scheduling systems to improve profitability
Is Excel no longer doing the job for your part scheduling? Don't want to deal with the cost, time, and hassle of a large ERP system? Then give PMC a call on how you can use the Asprova scheduling tool and TOC concepts to improve your ability to schedule your plant, and to improve profitability. If your schedules are constantly changing, and take too many resources to manage, then you'll be surprised to see how well these tools work to add clarity and reduce costs.
Introduction to TOC in Production- TOC101 - Training Class
Our two-day workshop will expose your company to the basics of the Theory of Constraints in production, as outlined in the book The Goal by Eli Goldratt. At the end of this session, you will understand how to identify your bottleneck, and prioritize your efforts in the company around its performance. The list of successful implementations by consultants at PMC and others in the field is long and impressive. See how GM improved their bottom line by $2B and won the prestigious Franz Edelman award by using TOC methods as a foundation for throughput improvement. If your company is not reaching your shareholders' expectation in Net Profit and RONA, it's worth your time to find out working with PMC to implement these concepts will have an impact on the bottom line. – Two day workshop
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Measures
Defining your Goal, measures and policies
Can't remember your Mission statement? Is your Vision statement hidden under a pile of work? It may be time to take time to figure out what the true goal of your company is, what is necessary to achieve that goal, and what measurement and policies that common sense dictates must be in place to reach that goal. If you are an executive of a company that needs to "get back to the basics," then a call to PMC is a great first step. Required: TOC105
Designing Dashboards to Get Results
A management dashboard is a great tool to help executives and the organization to help answer these basic questions: Do we know where we are going? Do we know how to get there? Do we know how far away we are? Do we know at what rate we are progressing towards our goal? Despite their simple purpose, companies can struggle with designing and implementing dashboards. Take a look at a new, common sense approach for using dashboards developed by PMC that generates results based on concepts defined by the Theory of Constraints. PMC can help your company scope, train, and implement dashboards that make a difference on the bottom line. Required: TOC105
Introduction to Goals, Policies & Measures - TOC105 - Training Class
Our two day workshop will expose your company to the basics of the Theory of Constraints in production, as outlined in the book The Goal by Eli Goldratt. At the end of this session, you will understand how the biggest cause of your problems is not your suppliers, it's not your customers, but it's your measurement system. If you company is lost in a sea of measures that give you little insight on what to do next, then you'll find this class enlightening and insightful. The list of successful implementations by consultants at PMC and others in the field is long and impressive. See how GM improved their bottom line by $2B and won the prestigious Franz Edelman award by using TOC methods as a foundation for throughput improvement. If your company is not reaching your shareholders' expectation in Net Profit and RONA, it's worth your time to find out working with PMC to implement these concepts will have an impact on the bottom line. Two Day Workshop – TOC105
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Project Management
Implementation of Critical Chain at your Facility
After you've learn the basics of Critical Chain, you'll want to take it to the next step - implementation in your facility. Let PMC help you, your project managers, and your employees get up to speed quickly with both the new methods and the software tools. As the project unfolds, you'll realize that your company now has implemented a competitive advantage - projects that are consistently completed on time and under budget. Required: TOC110
Basic theory of Critical Chain Class - TOC110 - Training Class
The plan looked so impressive and well thought out in the beginning, with all the project plan information in that great project planning software. But the results seem to be startling similar - late and over budget. It's time to take a look a different, common-sense approach to Project Management, as outlined in the book Critical Chain by EliatGoldratt. Critical Chain will help you understand how your company's measures and policies have a bigger impact on your on-time performance than your employees. You'll learn how the critical chain is different than the critical path, and why, especially in multi-project environments, that it's crucial to understand and manage the critical chain. PMC's one day introductory class will help you understand the basic of this methodology will help you and your company decide whether its time to get out of the "over and late" mode, and into the "on-time and under budget" mode.
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Thinking Processes
Finding the Root Cause of your Company's Problem
The key strength of the Theory of the Constraints is in this concept: The myriad of problems and undesirable effects that are currently occurring in your company are due a small number (usually just one) of root causes. The best way to expose this root cause is by developing a Thinking Process Current Reality (CRT) tree. The CRT is a logical, common-sense method of tying these undesirable effects together to uncover conflicts that are generating problems, and for drilling down to the root cause. Leverage PMC's many years of experience to create a CRT for your company, and find the root cause problem that must be addressed in order for your company to move towards your goal. To both understand and resolve the root cause, you'll want to take a look at Clouds as part of our Conflict Resolution methodology. Required: TIC115
Designing your future and developing a transition plan
You've leveraged PMC's skill in the Thinking Processes to not only map out why problems are occurring in your company, but you've also come to grips with the root cause and why it exists. Now it's time to resolve that conflict, and map out your Future Reality tree (FRT), a logical process that maps out the requirements your company will have to have in place to achieve its goal. Then map out the steps necessary to achieve that future with Transition Trees, another logic-based methodology that sequences the tasks in an order that greatly improves your chance of success. Required: TIC115
Conflict Resolution using Clouds - TOC115 - Training Class
Conflict resolution is the key to managing effectively in today's dynamic environment. Gaining agreement among your peers, employees, or management can be a key to being part of the solution, not part of the problem. Clouds are a conflict resolution process defined by Eli Goldratt’s It's Not Luck, and they provide a structure for documenting the conflict, the common goal, and the assumptions that both sides are using. Breaking the cloud comes from improved communication, and from allowing both sides to understand the assumptions that are in place. It's these assumptions that generally have given rise to the conflict. Once this is understood, both sides can work together to challenge their own assumptions, and come to a resolution that allows each side of the conflict to do what is necessary to reach their common goal.
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Design
Use TOC to Design your New Facility
With the basics understood from our one day class on Design, you can now use PMC's talented resources to help design and validate your next manufacturing process. PMC can collect data on existing processes, help convert this data to design data for new system design, create simulation models, use TOC and Lean methods, etc., to ensure your plant will make rate with high returns. Required: TOC120
Introduction - one-day workshop - TOC120 - Training Class
You've seen how TOC can impact how you can improve production at your facility. Now's it's time to see how TOC concepts can be used in the area of process design. Should you design in the bottleneck? If so, where? How does this decision impact the Net Profit and Return on Net Assets? How is variability handled? Take our one day workshop to interactively learn the answer to these questions and to gather valuable insight on the common sense approach to complex system design. Required: TOC101
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