Previous Techniques of the Week

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T001 Democratic Decision-Making (Faced with multiple choices, which will gain most acceptance?)

T002 Commonality Trees (How to establish postponement and stocking policy)

T003 Socratic problem solving (How to separate truth from opinion)

T004 Chunking (How to split a project into logical units of work to aid scheduling)

T005 Centralisation Analysis (Should a service be provided centrally or de-centrally?)

T006 Pareto Analysis (How to separate the important from the trivial)

T007 RAP (How to measure equipment or service effectiveness, or why OME/OEE is for the birds)

T008 Lead time Analysis (How to understand and improve lead times)

T009 FAB Analysis (How to make your product attractive to a potential customer)

T010 2 Bin Systems (How to reduce the administration of low value items and thereby focus on the expensive ones)

T011 Three Strikes And You Are Out (How to drive low cost Supplier Development)

T012 Decision Tables (How to ensure that you have considered all the options)

T013 SWOT analysis (How to develop a development plan or business plan)

T014 Re-order Point Systems (How to replenish stocks from forecasts based on historic demand, and when to use this system)

T015 Replacement Systems (How to control the replacement of used items or spares, and when to use this system)

T016 Forecasting in low volume environments (overcoming the problems of forecast error)

T017 Loading boards (A simple technique for capacity planning and job tracking)

T018 Lot traceability/Disaster recovery (How to set up a system to support product recall, or recover from a disaster to a known point)

T019 Avoiding Set Ups and Reducing Changeover Times (SMED) (and thereby reducing batch sizes)

T020 Close Scheduling (reducing throughput time) (includes principles of scheduling and terms used)

T021 TAKT Time (measuring throughput time)

T022 Product Standardisation (longer term issues)

T023 Fair Shares method of Backordering (Buying Time to Solve the Shortage Problem)

T024 Agile Stock Rebuilding (Solving the Shortage Problem)

T025 Self Billing (Removing supplier payment administration)

T026 Product Strategy: Product Life Cycle Positioning (Which products to develop, promote, exploit or retire)

T027 Product or Computer Programme FMEA (What risks do your Products or Programmes present in failure)

T028 Paired Comparison (Differentiating your product & reducing product or service costs without losing customers, or comparing suppliers)

T029 Redundant Analysis (Making sure your analysis is correct)

T030 Impact Ease Analysis (Prioritising a potential list of things to do)

T031 Pig Analysis (Your product cost is not correct. This method tells you your unprofitable products)

T032 Capital Expenditure Appraisal (Are you spending your capital wisely?)

T033 Process or Service FMEA (What risks do your processes or services present in failure?)

T034 Testing Forecast Accuracy (How do you know if your new forecast is reliable?)

T035 Product Life Cycle Costing (Why you do not know what your product costs are & what to do to find out)

T036 Traffic Light or RAG System (A simple visible system for highlighting areas needing attention)

T037 FIFO (The only sensible scheduling and stock rotation rule)

T038 Bills of Materials Simplification

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