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EM 530 Applications in Constraints Management
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WSU Engineering & Technology
Management Program.
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Next Class Starts in August 2013
The EM 530 Curriculum now includes an overview and preparatory material for the TOCIOC Fundamentals Exam (See TOCICO Fundamentals Exam).
EM 530 has always included sufficient material to prepare students for the TOCICO Supply Chain Logistics Exam and the TOCICO Project Management Exam.
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On-Line Lecture Courses over the Internet:
EM 530 Applications in Constraints Management is now an On-Line course available to qualified graduate students world wide. Course work is available on the Internet with weekly Video Conference lectures using software that lets student be involved in class (even present their material by video) in much that same manner as a traditional classroom. The video lectures are recorded for later review. There are additional materials for self study, student exercises and projects.
The class focus is on the management of physical constraints. The class includes: Drum-Buffer-Rope (flow shop, A, V, T and job shop), Critical Chain Project Management (single and multiple project), Supply Chain (replenishment and enterprise wide implementations). Students work hand and computer simulations to develop their intuition. Student verions of Critical Chain scheduling software is also available.
Class communication is by email, chatroom, telephone and office hour discussions. Fax and mail are also acceptable. There are suggested discussion groups (on-line conferences) to discuss group issues and clarify issues.
The Spring 2012 Semester will be the tenth offering in this on-line format. We believe in continuous improvement and are getting better and better at dealing with the technology of on line courses.
Stream Introduction to The Theory of Constraints: Constraints Management Overviews
Keeping Promises Spreed Sheet (Putting TDD and IDD to use in large organizations.)
TOC Games (as a group)
TOC Project Management Games (.pdf)
Instructions: Dice Game Instructions
Job
Shop Game Video Instructions(Video), PowerPoints
for Video
Instructions:Job
Shop Game Instructor Description
Visual Aids: Job
Shop Game Visual Aid , Game
Cards Basic , Game
Cards Advanced , Game
Cards Balanced Line
Value of being Reliable and Fast: Value
in the Job Shop Game in $$
Instructions: The Nickel Game Video
Instructions: The Dollar Game Video
The Assembly Game is a powerful and helpful insight to having a different type of Resource Buffer.
The Sixes Game Video (very powerful for understanding fundamentals and managing resources in CCPM)
Supply Chain Game (Manual-PowerPoint)
TOC Replenishment (Bean-VMI-Game) courtesy of Goldratt Schools
Book Review Necessary But Not
Sufficient
Visual
Project Management Video Presentation
PQ Problem
PQ Problem with some challenging
options
A few slide archives from previous Class Summer 2000
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In-Class Slides |
Self Study Slides |
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Free Clips from the TOC Insights in Operation, Finance
& Measures, Projects and Distribution are available at:
TOC Insights
Interesting Video Discussion about Making Change in Projects
(52 mins)
Overview
of CCPM S&T Approach
Two Critical Reviews of CCPM
Against, "A
Critical Look at Critical Chain
Project Management"
Rebutal of "Against" EM 540
Research Paper
A compilation of many views "Critical-Chain
in ERP Impelemtations" (note, ERP should really use
Replenishment)
Interesting Previous Student
Work:
Jamie Millers Dice Game-Simple
Assembly
Robert Lorbeski's Dice
Game-More Complicated Assembly
Hilbert Robinson's Rabbit Chase Paper
Ron Hawthorne's clever Budget Distribution
paper
Zelda Turner's Dice Version of the
Bead Experiment (see Session 8) with the MS
Project File
Short Story, TigerWoods on Project
Management, Chapter 1, by Joseph Pangilinan
Other Interesting Reading:
It's Just Not Fair: Precision
Power
It's Just Not Fair: Farmer
Safe
APICS Constraints Management Paper on Supply
Chain
PowerPoint Presentation on Supply
Chain
Presentation paper comparing seven different methods of managing a production line based on simulation of a common product schedule and common equipment - insightful! Comparing Management Management Methods (Powerpoint)
The following is an zipped, public domain program to display the above PowerPoint presentations: Nice Viewer/Printer (2,790 K) for those without PowerPoint Software
Connection to the EM530-LIST:
We use a class email server to communicate assignments,
instructions and questions to the members of the class. To become
part of this list, visit lists.wsu.edu
and and select the menu option <Join a List> from the left
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