At 07:56 AM 7/17/99 -BA, you wrote:
>Jan Leslie wrote:
>we communicate a lot on a factory floor, that is, we
>talk a lot. What is crucially important however is communicating about
>rescheduled, replanned) priorities and capabilities. Priorities have to
>be based on the flow of customer orders through the plant (Throughput),
>the site, the factory. . . .
>The Throughput is constrained by the capabilities, also known as
>capacities. This is the formal, the functional name of capability and
>the way it will be represented in the Manufacturing Resource Planning or
>Enterprise Resource Planning computer system (is it SO.A.P.? is it?).
>Because of the processes of shifting the blame (or burden) and to
>prevent others from the pain of problems, these capacities will be
>"inflated.
>The better we're communicating about the uncertainties in the capacities
>(or: what we're able to do, cap-able), the better we're able to
>(re)schedule the Throughput, use the (re)sources, lower the amount of >work
>in process, optimize the capabilities and, (re)inforcing the cause, the
>better we're able to communicate.
>The coupling between communicating and priorities setting is strong, the
>coupling between priorities setting and Throughput also, but the
>reinforcement of Throughput growth to improving communicating is weakend
>by the Parkinson's law: "work fills the time available for its
>completion".
Jan,
Are there methods in place to measure the rate of improvement. Can the
team do something about the process limitations? Unless the team is
talking about and can act on the real issues you description sounds like
the very definition of waste to me.
Has the tam been comissioned to act to improve the process?
A team that can not act on problems is bound for frustration. The force
that holds teams together is 'making a difference'. Does that possibility
exist?
et
Eugene Taurman
interLinx Consulting
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