Managing Automation, Factory Physics’ C-Suite: Factory Performance App Targets Execs
Science matters when selecting software
Manufacturing Business Technology - Oak Brook,IL,USA
Edward S. Pound is COO of Factory Physics Inc., a management consulting
company that provides a scientific framework, software, and training to optimize ...
Factory Physics Inc. today announced the third release of its C-Suite operations performance software, designed to help manufacturing executives optimize both cash flow and operational scheduling.
Manufacturing Business Technology: Performance improvement strategies that revolve around the notion of reducing nonvalue-added activities are quite popular these days. Unfortunately for the multitude of manufacturers relying on them, these strategies are flawed.
Unlike some buzzwords, lean manufacturing is just what it sounds like: lean. Practitioners have invented all kinds of ways to ensure leanness, but some veterans of this organizational diet have discovered disturbing side effects—their corporate anorexia may have made them look svelte but not necessarily beautiful in the eyes of customers.
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Georgia Tech’s Executive Masters in International Logistics calls on Dr. Spearman to deliver Factory Physics® workshop
Dr. Spearman will provide a Factory Physics workshop for Georgia Tech’s Executive Masters in International Logistics program (www.emil.gatech.edu). The workshop will be ‘delivered’ in Louisville, KY and includes a tour of UPS’ Hub Operation on May 17th and May 18th. The EMIL program prepares executives from the world's leading companies to face a multitude of global logistics and supply chain issues by teaching them to design creative logistics solutions while expanding their network of international government, industry and academic contacts. This unique 18-month masters program keeps key employees on-the-job while teaching them practical techniques for decreasing logistics costs and improving supply chain efficiencies across the globe. Georgia Tech’s school of Industrial and System’s Engineering is ranked as the top Industrial Engineering graduate school in the United States by Business Week.
In the Press
Manufacturing Business Technology, "The value-added fantasy: A strict focus on eliminating waste is not the best way to improve performance." November 2007
Executives and managers in manufacturing have been subject to a great diversion ever since the advent of the Toyota Production System. In an effort to improve performance, many have wasted inordinate amounts of time and money in organizational struggles over push systems versus pull systems.
The Manufacturer, "When inventory is not waste." April 2007