The Goal A Process Of Ongoing Improvement Essay

Introduction:

Theories that try to explain modern business processes exist to help leaders provide the best services that they can, while implementing safe and efficient products or services that will provide them with the maximum profit.

The aim of this report is to analyze the novel “The Goal a Process of Ongoing Improvement”, where the operations management Theory of Constraints (TOC) was introduced, and draw conclusions about TOC and how it relates to the EM 613 Summer 2015 course.

Finally, a reflection of the Operations Management course will be performed and will include three of the main concepts that were found to be important and how they will be implemented in my career. Meeting #1 (Ch: 4)

• Initial State: Alex had a chance

How the bottlenecks are handled will ultimately define success for the production process. Jonah tells Alex about what capacity may have been hidden due to incorrect thinking. The downtime on the NX-10 machine was brought up. Jonah noticed that the machine wasn’t running, and that the set up people were on break so the unit would remain off until they return. Jonah was interested in the fact that a bottleneck unit could be stopped and turned off only because the people responsible for it were on break. Jonah concludes that this scenario is ok with non-bottleneck units but was unacceptable for bottleneck process.

• Results: Alex learns that bottleneck processes should be kept busy or active constantly. Because dependent processes exist Alex and his crew need to develop a way to keep track of what materials had priority due to a bottleneck process. Red and green tags were developed to track these items.

• Lecture Commentary: This meeting was very similar to the last meeting that Alex and Jonah had. Bottleneck processes were still the main topic. The bottleneck reduction through quality idea was brought forth that had some elements that where in the lectures. Poor quality brought excess process downtime costs because the parts that were rejected by quality control have to be redone. If changes were made to quality initially there would be less down time that involved remaking