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August1618,2016Johannesburg,SouthAfrica

The Gift
Andy Anderson, Goldratt Group, South Africa
17th 18th August, 2016

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Name of the presenter

Andy Anderson is a Certified TOC Practitioner in Operations,
Distribution, Strategy, Project Management and Finance. His TOC
Consulting experience stretch over eighteen years, and covers both
local and international companies covering a wide range of
industries. Special focus areas include: Mining, Electricity and
Steam Generation, the Steel Industry (from coal and iron ore
mining through to retail, value adding processes and scrap
recovery).
Andy was the first to apply TOC concepts to Power Generation with
very good results; he presented a paper on his work to a TOC
International Convention held in George.
His work in CCPM for shutdown projects set new standards for
shutdown projects on large power plants, and he made
presentations on it at the Shutdown Project Management
Convention and the IQPC Shutdowns, Turnarounds & Outages
Conference 2011. He was instrumental in getting the CCPM
methodology adopted by ESKOM as integral part of their Outage
Management philosophy.

E-mail: andy@goldratt.co.za
Cell # : 082 898 4532

He revels in the challenge to resolve and find breakthroughs for

system problems and is known for successful implementations in
the not so conventional applications, e.g. in beneficiation plants,
call centres, safety, organization, procedures, ash handling
systems, to name but a few.

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Money Making Machine

R10000/hr

20%Capacitybuffer

3w

100%

60%

Policy
50%

1.Runthemach 24/7,365days/y
2.Staffall3shifts+Buffer
3. SubproductsBuffer
4. MarketBuffer

R1600/shift

5.RawMaterialBuffer
6. Maint SparesBuffer
7. Maint CrewonStandby

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CommonComplaintsinPM

Even though projects are diverse- the

complaints are very much the same

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Complaints Rather than Causes

Ifweaskedaprojectmanager60yearsagotospeak
abouthisproblemswouldwehavehearddifferent
complaints?
Wouldthemagnitudeoftheproblemsbedifferent?

Thenprojectmanagementdidnotsignificantly
progressedinthelast60years.

HOWCOME?
Maybewetriedtodealdirectlywiththecomplaints
ratherthanwiththedeep causesfortheirexistence?

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Complaints Rather than Causes

Trip
Smoking
Smell

Dirty

Hot

Shaking
Noisy
Vibr

OIL

Isthereacore
problem,
commonto
project
management,
asweknowit?

Temp Hi

Cause

ATOCAnalysisstarts
withidentifyingUn
DesiredEffects(UDEs)
andusestheminorder
toidentifythecore
problemofthesystem

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Critical Chain Project Management

DueDate

The safety we
allowed is not
enough to meet all
the glitches

90%
Late

Taskfinishingbeforethedue
datedonotbenefittheproject

Taskthatfinisheslate
impactstheprojectduration

Productof
traditionalPM

FeedingPaths

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Critical Chain Project Management

DueDate

Taskfinishingbeforethedue
datedonotbenefittheproject

Taskthatfinisheslate
impactstheprojectduration

Policy
1. WorkonCP24/7
2. Ensurefullkit Matandstaff

FeedingPaths

3. Bufferinsertedendofthepath

FullKit

25%More
Projects

4. ProtectCPagainstFeedingPaths
5. FullkitBuffers

The safety we
allowed is not
enough to meet
all the glitches

Reliable

MoveBufferstotheendtoallow
averagingoutoftaskdurations
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ThankYou

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