TOC Tapped to Accelerate Gulf of Mexico Cleanup ~ presented by Mark Woeppel

TOC was called in for what may be the worst environmental disaster in the USA. BP’s Deepwater Horizon platform exploded, taking 11 lives and sending oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. In June 2010, Pinnacle Strategies was called upon by BP to rapidly improve supply chain availability and decontamination efforts. Less than 48 hours after the initial inquiry, they began a marathon of visits across North America and Europe that led to an almost instant doubling, tripling, and in one case 10 fold increase, of manufacturing capacity for boom, skimmers, and absorbents. Later, after the well was capped, Pinnacle Strategies led improvement activities at decontamination sites across five states where thousands of boats, ships, and rigs were decontaminated before returning to their normal service. In this presentation, Mark Woeppel describes the Theory of Constraints steps used to achieve the extraordinary increases in capacity by improving bottlenecks at dozens of factories, ensuring that supply never constrained the fight against the oil spill. He also describes how they accelerated the cleaning of contaminated vessels saving more than $700 million by identifying key measurements and planning the bottleneck into the operation.

The Development of TOC Applications for the Service Sector ~ presented by Alex Knight

This presentation highlights some of the core developments of applying TOC for the Service sector over the last thirty years, and in particular focuses on areas where modification of the standard applications was not sufficient and a different approach was required (one that remains firmly rooted in the underpinning theory). In each instance Alex Knight demonstrates that the breakthrough has come purely from the derivation of the underlying theory and has never required the addition or integration with other theories. Alex provides nine important guiding points for you!

Justice in Time: Applying TOC to Law Courts Systems ~ presented by Boaz Ronen

The implementation of TOC and focused management principles to the management of law courts has achieved substantial lead time, throughput and quality improvements. This presentation shares key learning points including: to present the generic managerial problems of the adjudication system; to present and validate the use of TOC and focused management tools for the adjudication system; to present case studies that demonstrate the use of simple and practical tools that significantly improve the performance of a law court system.

Managing New Product Development Projects in Auto Components Industry ~ presented by Satyashri Mohanty

The presentation discusses the core problem and direction of the solution for the new product development of tier 1 / tier 2 suppliers in automotive industries whose primary job is to develop and supply new components for the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). The goal is to help them to improve their delivery performance of new products at a faster rate.  The direction of the solution is to break each of the NPD projects into logically independent work packets (a portion of the whole project which can be started and finished without any interruptions from the OEMs) and to implement the CCPM rules, e.g., low WIP, full-kit, planning and execution on those work packets to increase its output. A case study is also presented where the output increased by 8 times within 3 years of implementation.