“The principles of Minimalism can be distilled into a simple recipe for manufacturing management. Step one, decompose the manufacturing process so that disruptions are not propagated throughout the system. Step two, manage the difference between actual performance and what is theoretically possible, what we term “the competitive gap,” for a process, a manufacturing cell, or an entire plant. Step three, empirically validate the differences, isolate the disruptions responsible for them, and apply scientific method to the resolution of systematic problems…”
Editor’s Note: see related article, “Minimalist Manufacturing: Leveraging Process Knowledge for Strategic Benefit”
Ramchandran Jaikumar
Source: Prism (Arthur D. Little)
Subject: Operations
