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Derivation of the the conversion factor ßM, from bits of entropy to dollars of waste …
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Effective Mass Me of WIP derived from Little’s Law
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Derivation of the the conversion factor BM, from bits of entropy to dollars of waste …
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Derivation of Minimum Batch size to minimize WIP and Cycle Time R
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The Ohno Criterion states that WIP with faster velocities have lower cost than WIP with average slower velocities, in manufacturing cycles per unit time: v=G/W where W= number of pieces of Work In Process Inventory (WIP), and G = rate at which pieces exit from WIP to finished goods per unit...
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Presentation to John D C Little and Steve Graves
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of a company is greatly increased by the reduction of internal waste was originally demonstrated by Henry Ford, but has … been greatly extended by Toyota. All waste in a process results in longer lead times, measured from the injection of work … thermodynamic waste in a heat engine. Case studies are used to estimate the magnitude of Boltzmann’s Constant for Microeconomic …
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reduction which reduce cycle time and improve quality. Empirical data indicates that cost reduction due to waste elimination is … and waste in a Carnot Heat engine. We hypothesize that the waste in an economic process is also proportional to entropy as …
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Predictive cost reduction based on a thermodynamic model, in which parameters associated with a process are accessed. The parameters include a quantity of units of work-in-process at first and second times, and first and second constants respectively indicative of growth between the first and...
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a manufacturing or service process to create useful products and services. Inevitably business processes must waste some … minimum amount of waste in a business process? Can we find an equation for this waste similar to that of Clausius that may … tell us how to reduce the waste? A practical procedure for necessary data collection is defined which will allow management …
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