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A Guide to Implementing the Theory of Constraints (TOC) PowerPoints Preface Introduction Site Map Contents Next Step Bottom Line Production Supply Chain Tool Box Strategy Projects More ... Healthcare Project Buffers Critical Chain Implementation Details Multi-Project Drums Comparing Safety In Production Projects There are two groups of people who are likely to use these pages on projects; those with prior knowledge of production operations (manufacturing) and those with pure project backgrounds. For this reason I want to compare and contrast between production operations and project operations. The similarities are much greater than the differences. I want to do this for two reasons; Provide a bridge for people with production operation experience in order to enter into the project domain. Show people with project operation experience that the challenges that they face are not that different from those experienced in production environments. So I ask for your indulgence if you already feel slighted that “your” area of expertise is apparently no more difficult than “their” area of expertise. You see, we are basically all in the same boat – and we are all at sea as well. Industrialization is new. We only have to check whether our parents’ generation ran projects or production operations as we do, and if they did, then check out our grand-parents generation. The scale and scope of operations today is vastly different from that of just one or two generations ago. For instance, just one generation ago we didn’t have computers to make mistakes quite as quickly as we are able to today. In fact, computers are now so ubiquitous that we can discuss operations in terms of the software that drives them, or at least the generic approaches. For production operations the first software was material requirements planning (mrp or small mrp – referring to the use of lower case letters). Material requirements planning allowed the building of bills of material