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I see a lot of people mocking the idea that it's better that a truck leave partially full than it occupy a loading dock slot.
I wonder how many of these people are familiar with Operations Research or have read "The Goal".
https://www.amazon.com/Goal-Process-Ongoing-Improvement/dp/0884271951 https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1302732181949816832
I wonder how many of these people are familiar with Operations Research or have read "The Goal".
https://www.amazon.com/Goal-Process-Ongoing-Improvement/dp/0884271951 https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1302732181949816832
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TLDR: every process has some fundamental limiting constraint, and you should organize things to conserve and optimize against this constraint, and no other, to achieve maximum throughput.
If the Oregon USPS plant is maximally constrained by loading dock access >
TLDR: every process has some fundamental limiting constraint, and you should organize things to conserve and optimize against this constraint, and no other, to achieve maximum throughput.
If the Oregon USPS plant is maximally constrained by loading dock access >
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...then one truck remaining parked for 60 minutes while the last three boxes are loaded onto it, but which thereby prevents three other trucks from each arriving, getting loaded, and departing, in that slot, then HELL YES, that one truck should GTFO.
...then one truck remaining parked for 60 minutes while the last three boxes are loaded onto it, but which thereby prevents three other trucks from each arriving, getting loaded, and departing, in that slot, then HELL YES, that one truck should GTFO.
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Extend this further:
if that one truck pulls up, and NOTHING is ready to be loaded onto it, then at the end of its 20 minute window, it should GTFO and pull away empty, rather than wait. It can go to the back of the line so that other trucks can be loaded, while its cargo >
Extend this further:
if that one truck pulls up, and NOTHING is ready to be loaded onto it, then at the end of its 20 minute window, it should GTFO and pull away empty, rather than wait. It can go to the back of the line so that other trucks can be loaded, while its cargo >
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is prepped in parallel.
The fact that @GeoffRBennett implicitly mocks this process and this sign is pure NPC smooth brain.
...and it ties into the thread I had the other day about "sex trafficking" headlines.
STEELMAN THINGS
CONSTRUCT ALTERNATE EXPLANATIONS
is prepped in parallel.
The fact that @GeoffRBennett implicitly mocks this process and this sign is pure NPC smooth brain.
...and it ties into the thread I had the other day about "sex trafficking" headlines.
STEELMAN THINGS
CONSTRUCT ALTERNATE EXPLANATIONS
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It's like I've landed in "The Planet of the Apes," and I have to teach people to wipe themselves after they shit.
- Ted Nugent
It's like I've landed in "The Planet of the Apes," and I have to teach people to wipe themselves after they shit.
- Ted Nugent
