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Re:Long Beach has temporarily suspended container stacking l... by asplake on Saturday October 23, 2021 @04:23PM (#28971890)
And in the middle of all that, Theory of Constraints in a tweet:

“When you're designing an operation you must choose your bottleneck. If the bottleneck appears somewhere that you didn't choose it, you aren't running an operation. It's running you.”

https://twitter.com/typesfast/status/1451543795045183490?s=2...

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Re:Long Beach has temporarily suspended container stacking l... by Kinrany on Saturday October 23, 2021 @05:40PM (#28972611)
It's often said that ToC is a popularization of operations management knowledge that already existed at the time. Is there a better textbook that is more technical and not too dry?
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Re:Long Beach has temporarily suspended container stacking l... by chowndown on Saturday October 23, 2021 @06:28PM (#28972989)
I studied industrial engineering and don't recall "ToC" being covered outside of The Goal
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Re:Long Beach has temporarily suspended container stacking l... by orangesite on Saturday October 23, 2021 @04:58PM (#28972189)
Eli would have loved that thread…
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Re:Long Beach has temporarily suspended container stacking l... by jes on Saturday October 23, 2021 @09:16PM (#28973986)
Eli was a great man and mentor. I miss him almost every day.
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