Constraint and Bottleneck Management
1h 34mGeneral2024-02-20
Authors

Laurence Gartside
Founder at Rowtons Training: Operations Management Consultant and Coach
Course details
Increase system capacity and output through the theory and tools of managing the constraints and bottlenecks within your business and industrial operations. Instructor Laurence Gartside covers this core aspect of operations management and production efficiency improvement - equipping you with effective strategies and actionable steps to optimize for your supply chain and operation’s output productivity.
Built upon the “Theory of Constraints” and lean principles, this course explains how you can map your operational system of processes, calculate your production capacity and where-and-how to focus your improvement resources to make a dramatic capacity & productivity improvement. Laurence offers practical techniques and insights, using system mapping, capacity analysis, inventory management, downtime reduction, process speed-and-availability, system simplification and more.
Built upon the “Theory of Constraints” and lean principles, this course explains how you can map your operational system of processes, calculate your production capacity and where-and-how to focus your improvement resources to make a dramatic capacity & productivity improvement. Laurence offers practical techniques and insights, using system mapping, capacity analysis, inventory management, downtime reduction, process speed-and-availability, system simplification and more.
Skills covered
Business AnalysisOperations ManagementBusiness StrategyProject ManagementBusiness Analysis and StrategyLeadership and ManagementOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Manage constraints in your business operations
- 02 - Everyday bottlenecks and system efficiency
- 03 - Introduction to constraint and bottleneck management
1. Constraints in Business
- 04 - Difference between constraints and bottlenecks
- 05 - The goal of business operations
- 06 - Capacity or sales constrained
- 07 - Output, customer delivery, and inventory
- 08 - Throughput time and capacity at an airport
- 09 - The theory of constraints (TOC)
2. Finding the Constraint
- 10 - Process mapping to identify the constraint
- 11 - Simplifying complex systems
- 12 - Coupled and uncoupled processes
- 13 - Finding constraints and bottlenecks by observation
3. Output Performance and Inventory
- 14 - Output capacity Speed x availability
- 15 - Causes of lost availability and downtime
- 16 - Buffer inventory and WIP management
- 17 - Inventory management for maximum throughput
4. System Capacity Analysis
- 18 - Calculating the system theoretical capacity
- 19 - How to increase system capacity
- 20 - Strategies to improve production output
5. Supply Chain Optimization
- 21 - Supply chain and logistics performance
- 22 - Increasing supply chain capacity
6. Managing Flow and Performance
- 23 - Managing inventory and kanban
- 24 - Prevent and eliminate bottlenecks
7. Operational Improvement
- 25 - Lean and Six Sigma philosophy
- 26 - Breakthrough and continuous operational improvement
- 27 - Process improvement through speed and downtime
Conclusion
- 28 - Transform your operations
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