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The Goal Report. The Goal, written by Eliyahu M. Goldrattt and Jeff Cox, is based
around the life of Alex Rogo, plant manager for Uniware, a division of Unico. ...
THE GOAL REPORT. The book The Goal, written by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, is about the
manufacturing process and how it works together to achieve the goals of a firm. ...
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The book The Goal, written by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, is about the manufacturing process and how it works together to achieve the goals of a firm. The Goal is about science and education. It is an attempt to show that we can postulate a very small number of assumptions and utilize them to explain a very large spectrum of industrial phenomena. The Goal is about new global principles of manufacturing and people thinking logically and consistently about their problems and therefore able to determine “cause and effect” relationships between their actions and the results. In the process some of the characters in the book, Alex Rogo - who is the plant manager, Jonah - a physicist and old friend of Alex, Stacey Patazenik – who manages inventory control for the plant, Bob Donovan - who is the production manager at the plant, Lou, and Ralph Nakamura- the manager of the system database, are able to deduce some basic principles which they use to save their plant and make it successful.
The book begins with Bill Peach, the division vice-president, showing up at the plant unannounced to meet with Alex Rogo who is the plant manager. Bill has received a complaint from Bucky Burnside, president of one of UniCo’s biggest customers, that his order was seven weeks late. But not only is Bucky’s order late, but every order within the plant is past due. Bill informs Alex that the division is facing the worst losses in its history and it is mostly because of Alex’s plant’s poor performance. Bill Peach informs Alex he has three months or less to turn the situation at his plant around or he will have to close the plant and Alex and several of his employees will be out of a job.
Alex ran into Jonah, a scientist and high school friend, one day while at the airport. A conversation was struck about the condition of the plant as the two men talked about what each did for a living. Alex tells Jonah that his plant uses robots and that the robots have...
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