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The next week, Tom flew back to Detroit to meet with the leadership team that Matt had assembled to hear Tom’s presentation on Drum Buffer Rope. Tom drove his rental car to Simpson Water Heater’s facility and signed in. Matt came to meet him and they both walked to the conference room. When everyone was seated, Tom began, “Unlike the last presentation on the Ultimate Improvement Cycle, I want to keep today’s discussion much simpler. In a Theory of Constraints environment, production planning and scheduling is done so with a tool known as the Drum-Buffer-Rope. Drum Buffer Rope is designed to regulate the flow of work-in-process through a production line based upon the pace of the slowest resource, ...
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