The Haystack Syndrome


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Contents: Part 1 Formalizing the Decision Process; Data, information and the decision process - how they relate; What a company tries to achieve; Getting a hold on measurements; Defining throughput; Removing the overlap between inventory and operating expense; Measurements, bottom line and cost accounting; Exposing the foundation of cost accounting; Cost accounting was the traditional measurement; The new measurements' scale of importance; The resulting paradigm shift; Formulating the throughput world's decision process; What is the missing link? - building a decisive experiment; Demonstrating the difference between the cost world and the throughput world; Clarifying the confusion between data and information - some fundamental definitions; Demonstrating the impact of the new decision process on some tactical issues; Demonstrating inertia as a cause for policy constraints; Part 2 The Architecture of an Information System; Peering into the inherent structure of an information system - first attempt; Introducing the need to quantify 'protection'; Required data can be achieved only through scheduling and quantification of Murphy; Introducing the time buffer concept; Buffers and buffer-origins; First step in quantifying Murphy; Directing the efforts to improve local processes; Local performance measurements; An information system must be composed of scheduling, control and what-if modules; Part 3 Scheduling; Speeding up the process; Cleaning up some more inertia - rearranging the data structure; Establishing the criteria for an acceptable schedule; Identifying the first constraints; How to work with very inaccurate data; Pinpointing the conflicts between the identified constraints; Starting to remove conflicts - the system/user interplay; Resolving all remaining conflicts; Manual subordination - the drum-buffer-rope method; Subordinating while considering non-constraints' capacity - the conceptual approach; Dynamic time buffers and protective capacity; Some residual issues; The details of the subordination procedure; Identifying the next constraint, and looping back; Partial summary of benefits.
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