OPTimising Production′s Potential

Abstract

OPT has attracted considerable interest in recent years. Essentially it revolves around a philosophy of identifying the bottlenecks in a production system and minimising their impact on that system, though it has often been wrongly identified with the proprietary software for achieving this philosophy. Successful implementation of OPT requires a change in the performance measures applied to manufacturing. However, if these are made, substantial benefits can be obtained equivalent, in many respects, to those claimed for JIT but in a wider range of contexts than those to which just‐in‐time methods apply.

Citation

Wheatley, M. (1989), "OPTimising Production′s Potential", International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 9 No. 2, pp. 38-44. https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000001223