Constraints Management DVD Series

Constraints Management DVD series Volume I
Constraints Management DVD series Volume II

Volume I: Presentations from the 2005 Constraints Management Users Conference $149.95

Erickson Air-Crane manufactures as well as operates the world’s largest fleet of transport category S-64 Aircrane helicopters. These bright orange heavy lift helicopters are famous for their fire-suppression and disaster relief roles throughout the world.

Surging demand for this aircraft’s capabilities has put intense pressure on Erickson's primary manufacturing, repair and overhaul facilities in Central Point , OR . Hear how Erickson has used Critical Chain Project Management to dramatically increase project velocity and visibility in this highly uncertain and time sensitive environment.

CORSA is an engineering and manufacturing company specializing in high performance stainless steel exhaust systems for the marine and automotive aftermarket.

See how this progressive company is using Drum-Buffer-Rope and Replenishment in combination with KAN-BAN techniques to thrive in the face of rampant growth.

Buffer Management is the key ingredient for both short and long term performance in a TOC manufacturing system. Participants in this session can expect exposure to real life examples and to gain an in-depth understanding of how to use Buffer Management for better schedule execution and directing process improvement and investment.

Through the use of case studies, examples and exercises, this session examines the implications constraints have on:

• What we invest in, and what we sub-contract out – focusing operations & engineering;
• How products generate money – focusing sales, marketing, & development
• Business planning & budgeting – connecting operations, sales, and finance

For an organization to take full advantage of TOC, all functions and managers need to focus their efforts in the same direction. The business constraints provide the focus; cash flows, relevant cost analysis, and direct costing provide the framework for consistent decision making by all functions.

This session demonstrates how software packages should be address the issues raised in scheduling a plant according to Drum-Buffer-Rope methodology. This session will discuss in-house developed tools, how to recognize when you need to purchase software and lessons learned from many DBR implementations.

The combination of the focusing power of TOC combined with the detailed drill down ability of LEAN techniques is quickly becoming a potent combination for continuous improvement initiatives. You will be led through an exploration of how TOC and LEAN techniques integrate to form a detailed and focused improvement path based upon the constraints of an organization.

“Reduce Variability” or “Protect Against It”? This presentation answers two critical questions for organizations confused about how to apply both TOC and Six Sigma at the same time: When should you focus improvement efforts on “reducing variability around target” and when should you focus improvement efforts on “recognizing inherent process variability and using buffers to protect the performance of the system?

“Zero Defects” is not the goal – learn when to say no to defect reduction! This session discusses approaches to effectively implement both concepts at the same time without creating confusion. You will learn how to use TOC to focus and leverage your Six Sigma improvement efforts.

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Volume II: Presentations from the 2007 Constraints Management Users Conference $149.95

The Offshore Products Group of LeTourneau Technologies, Inc. (LTI) makes some of the world’s largest offshore jack-up rigs from their shipyard in Vicksburg, MS. Each rig involves over 1,000,000 man hours to deliver. Through one of the most extensive and integrated Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) implementations ever attempted, the Offshore Products Group has attained a level of project control, velocity and predictability never experienced by the organization. Pete Johnson from LTI Central Planning and Control and David Willis, head of the Program Office for Offshore Products will take you through this immense undertaking and the results that are being achieved.

How many Excel™ sheets does your company have to maintain just to get things done? Does this make you nervous? It should. When Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) software was introduced it revolutionized the manufacturing landscape. Businesses immediately rushed to implement and harness its power. Today, most companies have some form of MRP system in charge of demand forecasting, plant scheduling and materials management and procurement. Despite this proliferation, almost every company is dissatisfied with its MRP system's ability to properly synchronize and manage between actual demand, capacity and incoming supply. Learn simple solutions for the critical shortcomings of MRP assumptions in the new world of PULL based planning and execution.

The key to both CCPM and DBR is defining and building a good modeling approach. The importance of defining and resolving the classic modeling conflicts is a "pay me no or pay me later" dilemma. What is unresolved in modeling will bite you in execution. See lessons learned "the hard way" regarding the modeling conflicts and trade-offs when hooking CCPM to DBR and back to CCPM to connect a complex and long supply chain.

Bowden Manufacturing, one of Northeast Ohio’s fastest growing companies, specializes in the contract manufacturing and CNC machining of high-strength, high-temperature materials. Bowden has over 30,000 sq. ft. of equipment capability including CNC machining, grinding, turning, milling, and drilling/tapping; routinely handling prototypes & large-scale production for medical, automotive, aerospace and industrial. Andy McCartney, President, will present a case study, applicable to all small to mid-size manufacturers, which takes you through his company’s journey and transformation using the applications of the Theory of Constraints and eventual incorporation of DBR+ software. This presentation will cover Bowden’s on-going supply chain challenges and achievements realized on its way to successfully re-defining their place in the market.

Erickson Air-Crane’s (EAC) journey with TOC began with a large and highly successful implementation of CCPM in 2004. Winner of the Implementation of the Year Award for 2004, EAC’s next challenge was to completely reinvent their global supply chain in order to facilitate rapidly expanding and evolving aerial operations and aircraft sales. What are the challenges with that? For starters, many of the components of the aircraft had not been produced in over 40 years! Drawings had to be digitized, modern production techniques and alloys had to be accounted for and capable suppliers found. Learn how the TOC application of Replenishment is being used to focus Erickson’s limited planning, purchasing, engineering, manufacturing and overhaul/repair capacity to meet agressive growth and product timelines.

Justin Roff-Marsh is the founder and managing director of Ballistix — a Brisbane-based management consultancy, servicing clients in Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the USA. He's the author of Reengineering the Sales Process and the editor of AdVerb. Justin’s contrarian approach designs sales processes to optimize throughput, rather than to maximize conversion ratios. While this approach ends to be counter-intuitive, his experience is that most sales process underperformance is due more to a lack of activity than to poor sales skills. Of course, the relationship between activity and sales is generally understood. What isn’t understood is that most sales processes simply aren’t scalable. Furthermore, this lack of scalability is frequently a result of an over emphasis on conversion rates. Justin will share with the audience the four key factors that matter with regard to designing and managing a sales process to optimize throughput.

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There is one DVD for each session contained in the Series, along with a CD containing PDF copies of each presentation to print out and use to follow along while watching the DVD.

(Case Study presentations do not have presentation copies.)

*Once this product has been opened, the DVD/CD's may not be returned, items may only be exchanged if technical issues occur.

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