Goldratt's Rules of Production Scheduling - Answers *Do not balance capacity, balance the flow.
*The level utilization of a nonbottleneck resource is not determined by its own potential but by
some other constraint in the system.
*Utilization and activation of a resource are not the same.
*An hour lost at a bottleneck is an hour lost for the entire system.
*An hour saved at a nonbottleneck is a mirage.
*Bottlenecks govern both throughput and inventory in the system.
*Transfer batch may not, and many times should not, be equal to the process batch.
*A process batch should be variable both along its route and in time.
*Priorities can be set only by examining the system's constraints, and lead time is a derivative of
the schedule.
Goldratt's Theory of Constraints (TOC) - Answers *Identify the system constraints.
*Decide how to exploit the system constraints.
*Subordinate everything else to that decision.