Weekly Versus Monthly Pubs --Dickeson

Weekly pubs pull the work through the plant—there's no pushing it up into queues. It's called JIT—Just In Time. It was also Goldratt's throughput optimization from his TOC for Theory Of Constraints. It was Deming's insistence on minimizing variation for Continuous Improvement. When you're working minute-by-minute against a shipping deadline, you either master variation or you blow the job.