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The Subway Dilemma: One-Piece Flow vs. Batch Production!
Subway is the 2nd biggest fast food chain in the world and although my personal guiltier pleasure is Maccy D’s, I do indulge with a Subway a little more often. Partly, because I think it's a bit healthier and partly because I like watching the live production line!
“One Piece Flow” is the fabled ...
by Laurence Gartside —
Jul 31, 2025
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The Kingman Law - How Being More “efficient” Can Destroy Your Operations!
Isn't it tempting… Taking on that extra job for a little extra revenue or trimming back on capacity that is sometimes idle…
100% capacity utilization may “seem” like the perfect balancing act between demand and capacity but it comes with some typically underappreciated, often devastating consequ...
by Laurence Gartside —
Jul 14, 2025
advanced operations management
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The Greatest SMED Transformation! How F1 Pitstops Revolutionized Changeovers
One of the most inspiring aspects of working in business operations is to be able to see progress. However efficient and productive the system is today, it can always be better, and there will always be new problems but it's only when we compare it to what it “used” to look like that we can appre...
by Laurence Gartside —
Jun 24, 2025
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