To what to change?

Every 30 years, since the invention of Henry Ford’s factory process one century ago in 1920, there have been major transformations in process management.

William Deming in the 50’s started a revolution in Asian countries with the Statistical Process Control, followed by Just inTime introduced by Toyota, and Total Productive Maintenance created by Seiichi Nakajima.

In the 80’s, Eli Goldratt, author of the literary success “The Goal”, brought Westerners back to the top with the widely used Theory of Constraints.

These initiatives had so far brought together strong and valuable allies. Incorporating concepts originated from SPC, JIT, TPM, and TOC leads to one of the most powerful combinations of decision support tools ever assembled in history.

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