About this Presentation
This presentation explores the conceptual origins of buffer management in the context of TOC developments across make to order, engineer to order, and make to availability (MTO, ETO, MTA) manufacturing environments and more recently in the service sector. The presentation relates the buffer management concept to the seminal work of Shewhart (1931) and Ohno (1978) and discusses the practical and theoretical basis for extending the buffer management concept to enhance ‘lean’ developments, with particular reference to construction and healthcare management.
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Instructor(s)
Roy Stratton
Professor Roy Stratton is an Associate Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at Nottingham Trent University and has researched and implemented TOC related developments for over 30 years. He obtained his PhD at Nottingham Trent University and is currently on the Board of Theory of Constraints – International Certification Organization (TOC-ICO). His research is largely case and action research based focusing on flow management in complex environments covering supply chain, project and healthcare. His research appears in the IJOPM, IJPE, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management,