Solutions: Throughput Mission

Maximizing Throughput with Minimum Inventory

Your company is selling products faster than you can make them. Sure doesn’t sound like a problem—unless you’re the person responsible for manufacturing, and then you know that nothing adds up.

If you have a growing backlog of unshipped orders and your plan attainment is below goal, you’re getting beaten up by your sales organization and beaten down by competitors. Our mission is to help you balance inventory and throughput to attain the kinds of customer service levels that will make everyone’s bonuses multiply.

MachSix = Maximum Throughput

Let’s start by telling you what we won’t do. We won’t try to sell you on a software solution because software alone doesn’t solve the equation.

Invistics uniquely combines advanced optimization, analytics and simulation software with a methodology that integrates proven principles of Lean Manufacturing with key components of the Six Sigma DMAIC to achieve perfect balance between inventory, cycle times, throughput and customer service—that’s the answer.

First, we’ll help you define the bottlenecks that are limiting throughput and adjust inventory to either fix or feed them accordingly. We’ll measure output against goals to make sure your bottlenecks get optimized and then stay that way, to optimize inventory and machine usage while attaining maximum levels of throughput.

Now that we fixed things for the short term, we’ll analyze how to increase throughput over time and sustain your results—whether it’s buying more machinery, hiring more people or more efficiently managing inventory. You’ll improve reliability and yields, be able to prioritize projects that will most improve bottleneck performance while you’re continually monitoring bottlenecks to tell when they’ve changed or moved.

We’ll also give you the control tools to release work so there’s never idle time at a bottleneck and we’ll optimize processes with unique pull-based scheduling models such as drum buffer rope.

Utilizing Invistics MachSix, you can model a variety of scenarios to actually see how adjustments in inventory or desired customer service levels impact plant performance, then set levels to achieve specific goals and “dial” those numbers into existing planning and execution systems to enable a true demand-based production operation.

Your mission is to ship more products on time with the least amount of inventory, maximizing your returns and customer satisfaction. Our mission is to help you balance the complex trade-offs between inventory and throughput, so you can achieve your goals and enjoy watching your customer service levels blow the bell curve.

Let us help you achieve your throughput objectives.