An hour saved at the non-bottleneck is a mirage..

Make the bottlenecks work only on what will contribute to throughput today … not nine months from now. That’s one way to increase capacity at the bot….

I say an hour lost at a bottleneck is an hour out of the entire system. I say an hour saved at a non-bottleneck is worthless. Bottlenecks govern both….

Why not make the work easier and more interesting so that people do not have to sweat? The Toyota style is not to create results by working hard. It….

So this is the goal: To make money by increasing net profit, while simultaneously increasing return on investment, and simultaneously increasing cash….

If you don't manufacture a quality product all you've got at the end is a bunch of expensive mistakes..

Never let something important become urgent.

If we reduce batch sizes by half, we also reduce by half the time it will take to process a batch. That means we reduce queue and wait by half as wel….

Tell me how you measure me, and I will tell you how I will behave.

The goal is not to improve one measurement in isolation. The goal is to reduce operational expenses AND reduce inventories and increase throughput si….

Cost Accounting is enemy number one of productivity..

An expert is not someone who gives you the answer, it is someone who asks you the right question..