Jim and Justin I think you are almost correct, but the explanation is exactly pressure differences. When the water is flowing through the bottleneck, pressure...
Hi Clarke I thought of another thing that you could illustrate with your bottle example: The fact that less can be more. The problem with the water flow occurs...
Folks, if you are going to apply ToC to water in a bottle, then what is the system, and what is the goal? And then, what is the constraint? We need understand...
... The rule of thumb is to make the buffer equal to half the average lead time from the beginning of the process to the constrained resource. Of course, you...
Hi Richard Since you are a fan of TRIZ would you Please Please use this example as a instruction exercise and show us your workings of it. Then we can see how...
Intersting post. I'd love it if you could elaborate on the triz method. I'm a bit thick and I've struggled to get through any of the texts on triz. ... I...
Like your ideas jim. .oOo. Sent from my BlackBerry www.ClarkeChing.com +44(0)7920114893 ... From: "Jim Bowles" <j_m-bowles@...> Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007...
Hi Clarke I'm right with Winnie on this one. I have already told my John and Nat that Edward has a digestive system similar to his Granddad's. Or are you...
What story is it ... -- __________________________________ Santiago Velásquez Martínez "The important thing is not to stop questioning." What story is it On...
My guess is that the chairs were used to get people to talk to each other... Regards, Dave Simpson Director of Operations The Original Cakerie, Ltd Tel: (604)...
Tony showed a great example with the soap problem I posted of the book "Innotative Solutions" ... -- __________________________________ Santiago Velásquez...
Methods that complement ToC. TRIZ: If anyone is interested in dealing with physical constraints, then you will find TRIZ of great interest. I suggest you start...
Richard Now I can really state my reservation about this contribution – it comes under the category of BS……….. I am not interesting in knowing about...
... I use the Crawford Slip brainstorming method to generate entities for the Thinking Process. Works pretty well. (Seems to work better the less prepared I...
Nope. Here's the story: The ceo was new to the hospital. The opthalmic doctors had requested budget for a new extra surgery and more doctors. He went to talk...
What did they call those chairs - a buffer by any chance???? Jim Bowles Nope. Here's the story: The ceo was new to the hospital. The opthalmic doctors had...
I imagine they did - though some simple folks probably continued to call them "the 2 chairs"... ... -- Clarke Ching www.clarkeching.com +44(0)7920114893...
So, one chair is for the next patient, the other the following one, I think you are correct Jim, this way they can reduce the waiting time for patients - 6x20...
Sounds right. I'd not actually bothered doing the calculations but the hospital ceo said that they achieved a 23% improvement in throughtput of operations....
I have a couple of questions regarding the TOC view of market segmentation: The most common definition of market segmentation goes something like this: A...
... definition replace the first, or add to it? After having written it down, it seems a daft question. Obviously the TOC definition is in addition to the more...
________________________________ From: cmsig@yahoogroups.com [mailto:cmsig@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Henrik Mårtensson Sent: Saturday, 6 October 2007 4:23...
Henrik asks: "I have observed that in different market segments the problems specific to that segment tend to have higher priority than the problems common to ...
Henrik - ... definition replace the first, or add to it? My belief has always been that the TOC definition is really product segmentation rather than market...
Hi everyone, Does anyone out their on the hinternet know if their is a Japanese term for the way Toyota works with their suppliers? I've hunted on the...
