Author: Atomic Data

White Paper: The Next Generation of Planning and Scheduling Solutions

This paper provides a customer/order-centric view of manufacturing planning and scheduling that focuses on synchronizing man, material, method and machine to produce an order in the most efficient way possible.  This approach drives the system – and those who use it – to optimize flow through the entire system rather than individual components.  Focusing on flow through the entire process leads to increased throughput and ultimately impacts the bottom-line.

White Paper: Enterprise Impact of SyncManufacturing^® Software

White Paper: Why Become More Demand-Driven? Responding to Customer Needs

When the focus of every business is on revenue growth and meeting specific customer requirements, the need to become demand-driven speaks for itself.  This paper will help you outline your business case more efficiently with evidence from similar manufacturing environments that successfully transitioned.

White Paper: Demand-Driven Manufacturing Metrics that Drive Action

Demand-Driven Manufacturing Metrics that Drive Action addresses the key elements of demand, or pull-based manufacturing: Managing constraints and synchronizing activities to improve production flow and, ultimately, throughput. In doing so, this white paper lays the foundation for the Demand-Driven Manufacturing Metrics for Action Guide– a resource that outlines the operational metrics that you can take action on to improve your operations and supply chain performance.

Thought Leadership: Eliminate Production Bottlenecks; Manage Manufacturing Constraints

What is the difference between a bottleneck and a constraint? And, what’s the best strategy for managing each of these inhibitors to production flow?

Eliminate Production Bottlenecks; Manage Manufacturing Constraints explains how Lean and Demand-Driven Manufacturers categorize constraints and bottlenecks – and why they need to be addressed differently. The paper reviews:

• Different strategies for managing bottlenecks and constraints while accounting for variability.
• How production flow-based constraints have been addressed through different Drum-Buffer-Rope (DBR) methods from The Theory of Constraints (TOC)
• How DBR concepts have evolved into technology that synchronizes the entire value stream and automatically sets the optimal production pace to drive flow.