What I’m telling you is, productivity is meaningless unless you know what your goal is,” he says. - Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Tell me how you measure me and I’ll tell you how I will behave.

Well, since we started keeping data on the bottlenecks, I’ve been noticing I’m able to predict several weeks in advance what each bottleneck will be working on at a particular time. See, as long as I know exactly what’s in queue, I just take the average setup and process times for each type of part, and I’m able to calculate when each batch should clear the bottleneck. Because we’re only dealing with one work center, with much less dependency, we can average the statistical fluctuations and get a better degree of accuracy.

Companies are so immersed in the mentality of saving money that they forget that the whole intention of a project is not to save money but to make money.