Here are some resources and additional reading to complement the Factory Physics in Practice and 8 Factory Physics Principles that Optimize Production webinars and the presentation at the MWUG Spring 2024 Conference.
Factory Physics 3rd Edition by Wallace J. Hopp, Mark L. Spearman
Audels Mechanical Dictionary for Technical Trades, Arts and Sciences
Factory Physics for Managers: How Leaders Improve Performance in a Post-Lean Six Sigma World
Supply Chain Science
Factory Physics: Methods for Efficient Project Management in a Scientific Environment
Constructing a production possibilities curve
Control Charts
Combining System Dynamics And Factory Physics Approach To Study The Effect Of Continuous Improvement On Lot Size – Cycle Time Relationships
5S (methodology)
A Brief History of Energy Storage
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Control Theory for Physicists
Theory of Constraints
Single-minute exchange of die
Operations management
Operations research
Manufacturing Science
Production system (computer science)
Industrial engineering
Industrial processes
Continual improvement process
What is factory management?
Lean manufacturing
Systems engineering
Production and Process Optimization in Manufacturing
Production Planning
Process Simulation
System Dynamics
6 Actionable Tips on How to Improve (and Calculate) Workplace Efficiency
Operations Management
Industrial Processes
Plant Simulation
McCormick School of Engineering – Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences
Georgia Tech College of Engineering – Industrial and Systems Engineering Program
Strategic Project Solutions
Project Production Institute
Lean Construction Institute
Reorder Point: When Should I Reorder?
Analysis of Variance
Descriptive statistics
Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient
A Brief History of Energy Storage
Beyond Supply Chain 2024 Predictions
Beyond Lean: Factory Physics
Master Control
Intelex
ETQ
Benchmakr Gensuite
Honeywell
AssurX
Cority
arena
Asana
Aurora-CCPM
ClickUp
etq
EHS Software
Cority
Intelex
Atlassian
ProChain
smartsheet
Strategic Project Solutions
Supply Chain Sciences
What is Microsoft Fabric?
Wrike
How AI is Revolutionizing Production Scheduling in Manufacturing
The Benefits of Adopting Factory Physics
Little’s Law 1
5S methodology
Factory Physics: Methods for Efficient Project Management in a Scientific Environment
Information Distortion in a Supply Chain: The Bullwhip Effect
Beyond Supply Chain 2024 Predictions
Nicolas Minorsky
Adolf Hurwitz
Jay Wright Forrester
John D.C. Little
Agner Krarup Erlang
Alexander Shapiro
Bill Smith (Motorola Engineer)
John Little: The Man behind Marketing Science
Little’s Law Definition and History
Mark Spearman
Kaoru Ishikawa
Edward Routh
Irmgard Flügge-Lotz
Izak Duenyas
James Clerk Maxwell
Jay Wright Forrester
Factory Physics: A Fast Cycle Time Story
Supply Chain Sciences
The Goal (novel)
workPLAN
Factory Physics in Practice
The Benefits of Adopting Factory Physics
AI-Powered Tools for Production Scheduling
Prompt engineering
Future Ready. The Supply Chain 2.0
Transformers: Supply Chain 3.0 – The Rise of the Fully Automated Supply Chain
Inventory Control: The Fundamentals
What is Microsoft Fabric
Microsoft Fabric Community Conference
Engineered Materials Handbook Desk Edition
The Encyclopedia of Engineering Materials and Processes
Audels Mechanical Dictionary for Technical Trades, Arts and Sciences, Part 1-2
Introduction to Queueing Theory and Stochastic Teletraffic Models
Queueing Systems, Volume I
Queueing Systems, Vol. 2: Computer Applications
Fundamentals of Queueing Theory
Introduction to Queueing Theory
The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World’s Greatest Manufacturer
Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation
The Machine That Changed the World
Lean Six Sigma for Service How to Use Lean Speed and Six Sigma Quality to Improve Services and Transactions
Georgia Tech College of Engineering
Georgia Tech Industrial and Systems Engineering Program
McCormick School of Engineering Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences
Drum Buffer Rope Explained
Drum-Buffer-Rope
Engineered Materials Handbook Desk Edition
Factory Physics and it’s possible application in SAP – variability
Plant Simulation
Frequency Distribution: Definition
Future Ready. The Supply Chain 2.0
Information Distortion in a Supply Chain: The Bullwhip Effect
Little’s Law: Understanding the Fundamentals of Queueing Theory
Factory Physics: A Fast Cycle Time Story
New Results in Factory Physics
OC Curves for x-bar Control Charts; Type II error, ARL, and Sample Size
Pollaczek–Khinchine formula
Probability Distributions Used in Reliability Engineering
Production system (computer science)
Crucial connection for ‘quantum internet’ made for the first time
M/M/1 Queuing System-Three Examples
Single-minute exchange of die
Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient
TOC for Inventory Management
Transformers: Supply Chain 3.0 – The Rise of the Fully Automated Supply Chain
What is workplace efficiency?
