The whole argument, in five notes.
A factory is a dependent system. These notes follow that idea wherever it leads — from local efficiency and cost accounting to the perfectly balanced factory, and why we might choose our bottleneck on purpose.
This is the run as it stands. It is not a drip. Read them in order. We will add more as questions come in.
START WITH THE FIRST NOTEThe Law of Dependencies is like gravity for production.
You don't have to believe in it. Your factory will obey it anyway.
Making every part of your factory more efficient can make the factory worse.
A factory does not make money because every machine is busy. It makes money when finished work leaves the factory.
I think cost accounting caused the problem.
Hourly rates make idle time look expensive. Accounting is necessary. Cost accounting should not run a dependent factory.
Let's build the perfectly balanced factory.
No spare capacity. No idle machines. Nothing wasted. What could go wrong?
What if we chose our bottleneck on purpose?
Every factory has something limiting its output. I'd rather decide where it lives.
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