Synchronous Management: Profit-Based Manufacturing for the 21st Century, Vol. 1

If you manage a manufacturing operation, this is one book that is a must read. Synchronous Management is written specifically for the manufacturing environment, laying the groundwork for building a successful T.O.C. implementation. The information provided may be translated into a variety of industries; however it is so focused on manufacturing, the reader would need to translate the information into correlations with their own environment for industries outside of manufacturing.Synchronous management is written in very simple english, and takes the reader through an understanding of how faulty measurement or evaluation systems can cripple a company; how cost accounting can actually lead to very poor decisions; what is meant by bottlenecks, non bottlenecks, and system constraints; what is meant by drum-buffer-rope; how to implement drum-buffer-rope; and how to establish the best possible batch sizing for maximum throughput.I will give this book a two thumbs up for anyone in the manufacturing industry, and also a very high rating for those in other industries.

Starts with a historical background. I like the comments about FORD, especialy in 1926 having a complete cycle from iron ore to finished car in just 81 hours!!!There is a comparison between assembly system (push), JIT (lean, pull), MRP II (push) and DBR (TOC, push and pull).I like the interpretation of DBR classification as both pull & push.There is a historical roots search for standard costing and comparison between cost accounting & Throughput accounting.DBR is explained but since it is 1997 the latest version of theory is not present. For example in the book there are two types of buffers such as time and stock. Currently there are one more as capacity buffer and the next candidate is budget buffer.I have noticed that the book refers to buffer content but as I watched Goldratt in videos he is talking about physical presence of partial buffer just before constraint.Anyway, I like the book, will read 2nd volüme soon.

If you have read The Goal, you will find it very helpful to clarify and make the links between theory and practice.

After putting these innovations into practice, I observed incredible results!Read the novel The Goal by Goldratt before diving into these concepts.

If you want to understand how SFM and TOC works in manufacturing, this is the book for you.It explains how these processes work - and they do.If you're considering implementation, this book is a must have!

The information that I gained from this volume will pay back dividends thousands of times over. I am requiring all of my upper level managers to read it. The only negative that I saw was their need to continuously repeat certain portions. Great otherwise.