By: Rick Phelps, Principal, Synchronous Solutions Mark recently showed me a YouTube video of a renowned business advisor talking about the revenue per employee required for an HVAC company to be acceptably profitable. The number tossed out was $350,000+ per employee. Interesting! Here is how to determine what that number should be in your business.…
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By: Rick Phelps, Principal, Synchronous Solutions Growing a fabricating shop from $2M a year in revenue to $6M per year can be a treacherous journey. It has been likened to the early pioneers crossing the Badlands in their wagons – you better be prepared for the journey or you will die along the trail. In…
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By: Rob Loughridge, Principal, Synchronous Solutions Some of you may have seen the blog and video “What do Pizza Shops and Countertop Manufacturers Have in Common?” They are about templating jobs before you have all the information you need to complete a project. The blog and video have been posted on our website, and our…
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By: Mark Phelps, Principal, Synchronous Solutions Business is a tool, a tool to help life go right. If business is stable, then it can be the one stable place when your life is rocky, right? We take advantage of the fact that people with stable lives can handle a rocky business. But really, we are…
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The Pizza Analogy By: Rob Loughridge, Principal, Synchronous Solutions In the beginning of a Synchronous Flow implementation, one of the first items on the agenda is to design the manufacturing engine specifically tailored for your business. This “engine” includes all the functions of operations and the time it takes to complete each function expressed in…
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By: Ken Nishiguchi, Principal, Synchronous Solutions Drum Buffer Rope is a scheduling process developed and popularized by Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt and it is a key element of any organization that has implemented Theory of Constraints thinking. In his book, The Goal, Goldratt uses a Boy Scout team hiking a mountain to illustrate how it works.…
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By: Mark Phelps, Principal, Synchronous Solutions Some of you are familiar with the term perturbation. One of the ingredients of growth is pressure. If we’re going to grow, we tend to get under pressure. So, all this new knowledge and all these new things that you need to do is a pressure. And that pressure…
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Having a goal isn’t enough. You need a plan too. The quality of your plan will determine how well you execute. Read our writings on the topic of planning below. Then let’s connect and start talking working on your plan together. Capacity Planning Slippery Rock Gazette, Apr ’20 The Law of Supply and Demand Slippery…
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Do right by your people and they will take to success. Here are a few articles we’ve written that speak to the human factor. We are in the people business and that is what makes it both fun and rewarding. Complacency Slippery Rock Gazette, Aug ’21 The Hawthorne Effect Slippery Rock Gazette, Sep ’20 The…
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Excellence is beyond good and a result of greatness. We are on a continuous pursuit of excellence because we believe there is no finish line. While success may be measured at all points along the way, the second we stop growing, we start dying. A company will grow until it is constrained from doing so.…
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