I posted a couple articles in a separate forum for feedback, and folks suggested they might be better suited for a management forum.
I wrote a couple pieces with frameworks to help with operations management. The idea is to introduce academic frameworks, and then dive into detail on specific subjects in upcoming posts. Goal is to provide shop owners and managers with A) industry-tested and B) actionable tools.
The topics include:
1. Production scheduling guide - The Ondema Guide to Production Scheduling. Contains dispatching rules, queue and batching rules, production scheduling models, and more.
2. Process analysis and bottlenecks - Level Up Production Bottleneck Hunting With These Tips. Introduces process analysis, measuring process performance, and dealing with bottlenecks.
3. Minimizing makespan - Minimizing Makespan, Explained Using Attack Helicopters. Introduces algorithms for minimizing the total time it takes to complete jobs.
4. Managing queues - Manage Production Queues Like a Boss. Touches on Queueing Theory, how to measure queues, and techniques for managing them.
5. Inventory management - Uncertain Demand? Not a Problem with the Newsvendor Model. Introduces one of the prominent models that super-expensive inventory management software is based on. Our next post dives into two more models for inventory management.
The inventory management piece was fun to write as folks can use the info to build a spreadsheet that does 90% of the stuff that inventory management software costing tens of thousands of dollars a year (or more!) does...
Feedback requests:
1. Is this content useful for machinists/shop owners? What would make it more useful?
2. What are other topics you'd like information on?
3. Do technical frameworks help, or are they throwaway?
FULL DISCLOSURE: I work at a startup building flexible production scheduling software for machine shops. I'm not trying to sell you anything. Just hoping for feedback on how we can provide better content that is actually helpful for shop owners and machinists and not just meaningless internet fluff.
Many thanks in advance to those who check it out.
I wrote a couple pieces with frameworks to help with operations management. The idea is to introduce academic frameworks, and then dive into detail on specific subjects in upcoming posts. Goal is to provide shop owners and managers with A) industry-tested and B) actionable tools.
The topics include:
1. Production scheduling guide - The Ondema Guide to Production Scheduling. Contains dispatching rules, queue and batching rules, production scheduling models, and more.
2. Process analysis and bottlenecks - Level Up Production Bottleneck Hunting With These Tips. Introduces process analysis, measuring process performance, and dealing with bottlenecks.
3. Minimizing makespan - Minimizing Makespan, Explained Using Attack Helicopters. Introduces algorithms for minimizing the total time it takes to complete jobs.
4. Managing queues - Manage Production Queues Like a Boss. Touches on Queueing Theory, how to measure queues, and techniques for managing them.
5. Inventory management - Uncertain Demand? Not a Problem with the Newsvendor Model. Introduces one of the prominent models that super-expensive inventory management software is based on. Our next post dives into two more models for inventory management.
The inventory management piece was fun to write as folks can use the info to build a spreadsheet that does 90% of the stuff that inventory management software costing tens of thousands of dollars a year (or more!) does...
Feedback requests:
1. Is this content useful for machinists/shop owners? What would make it more useful?
2. What are other topics you'd like information on?
3. Do technical frameworks help, or are they throwaway?
FULL DISCLOSURE: I work at a startup building flexible production scheduling software for machine shops. I'm not trying to sell you anything. Just hoping for feedback on how we can provide better content that is actually helpful for shop owners and machinists and not just meaningless internet fluff.
Many thanks in advance to those who check it out.