The Race is about our standard of
living and how we can increase it. Today we are facing a real threat in the
Western World that the opposite will happen. This companion book to Eli Goldratt
and Jeff Cox's underground best-seller, The Goal, is helping reverse the
situation. The graphics and accompanying text reveal the implications stemming
from the shop floor to our standard of living.
The Race allows you to derive a superior production scheduling system,
Drum-Buffer-Rope, for generating logistical improvements, and how to focus
improvements that benefit the whole system and not just the local optimum. The
epilogue and appendix quizzes will give the reader an insight on how to initiate
and extend a process of ongoing improvement beyond manufacturing and into areas
like marketing and financial control.