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COBEF 2017
Congresso Brasileiro de Engenharia de Fabricação
IMPROVING THE RESULTS OF THE PROJECT’s PORTFOLIO OF AN AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURER USING THE THEORY OF CONSTRAINTS TOOLS (ToC)
Submission Author:
Robert Eduardo Cooper Ordoñez , SP
Co-Authors:
Luciano Giovanni, Rosley Anholon
Presenter: Luciano Giovanni
doi://10.26678/ABCM.COBEF2017.COF2017-0692
Abstract
Aircraft manufacturers have a large number of customers spread all over the planet and their products, the airplanes, are highly controlled equipment. Therefore, all the needs of corrections or improvements generated by the clients generate projects for correction or product improvements, directly to the manufacturer. The large volume of open projects (WIP), plus the high cost of such skilled resources imposes a high dispute for resources during the execution of the projects (multi-tasking). This ultimately reduces the speed with which projects are been executed and often prevent projects from being delivered within the agreed deadlines. This case study will describe how the company succeeded in using ToC thinking processes tools and Critical Chain method, to reduce the project delivery cycle and increasing the volume of deliveries, without increasing the size of the team responsible for the projects execution.
Keywords
Theory of constraints, Critical Chain, Cycle reduction, Throughput increase
