From the award-winning developers of Factory Physics-a powerful leadership guide for
breakthrough performance A comprehensive guide that cuts through the hodgepodge of copycat
initiatives overblown buzzwords confusing mathematics and misguided software Factory
Physics for Managers is a breath of fresh air for operations managers and executives. Written
by the leaders and experts behind the bestselling Factory Physics it's a brilliant crash
course in the practical science of operations designed to help you: Achieve best possible
profit cash flow and customer service Attain highest return with existing Lean Six Sigma
and ERP initiatives Manage your capacity inventory response time and variability with high
predictability Simplify management of complexity using existing IT systems Use the fundamentals
of science to ensure your operation's success See your company and procedures more clearly
Improve intuition decision making and strategy execution A strategy of imitation is not much
of a strategy. Most every company uses the common continuous improvement initiatives. This
highly accessible guide addresses but goes beyond other business approaches such as Lean Six
Sigma and Theory of Constraints by offering a customizable plan that you can apply to any
manufacturing-based industry or supply chain. You'll discover invaluable tools for developing
operations strategy and driving execution by using practical science to assess your procedures
target problems and find solutions. You'll learn essential life lessons from the best-and
worst-practices of corporate leaders like Toyota and Boeing. You'll find ingenious new ways to
improve your leadership by predictively managing the tradeoffs that every operation
faces-whether it's more or less inventory or capacity higher or lower customer service or
more or fewer products. Using this approach you can tackle these natural conflicts in business
through a practical comprehensive science of operations. Factory Physics for Managers makes it
easier to choose and execute the best strategy for better productivity-and even bigger profits.
Praise for Factory Physics for Managers Factory Physics for Managers is a proven path to
flawless execution and results. Leading vs. following in our industry is predicated on the
relentless pursuit of putting order to chaos. Factory Physics science and CSUITE software have
given our organization the ability to plan predict model and execute based on explosive
growth and rapid-fire dynamic changes to our business model. In our case history is not a
good predictor of the future so we need to deploy our resources wisely and the Factory
Physics approach has helped us do just that.-Larry Doerr COO Stratasys Shows how the science
behind Lean initiatives can greatly improve results interms of productivity and resources.-Bill
Fierle Vice President and General Manager TopWorx Emerson Brings powerful accessible
science to operations management. The FactoryPhysics playbook enables me to lead the harnessing
of our data more effectively for modeling planning control and feedback. Armed with the
concepts common language and tools in this book I can partner with operations' leadership to
impact the bottom line.-Jeffrey Korman CIO Hu-Friedy Mfg LLC Chicago
