Even if the best manufacturing practices (TOC - Goldratt’s “theory of constraints”, TOYOTA with lean production system) are available through the books and other media, there is still a lot of companies organized in old fashion of mass production, streaming their efforts for local efficiency, carrying excess inventory, overcapacity, lacking standard operational procedures and with slow stream of production. The most common reason for new investment is capacity increase, but very rarely this is the last possible option - most companies still have huge organizational possibilities to increase productivity without investing in the new machinery.
Our task is to find these organizational reserves and prevent company from investment in excess capacity, to keep it’s flexibility and competitiveness in the marketplace.