Manufacturing Expert Dr. Lisa Lang Hits Amazon.com Best Seller List With “Trendsetters”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Manufacturing Expert Dr. Lisa Lang Hits Amazon.com Best Seller List With “Trendsetters” Dr. Lisa Lang, of the Science of Business, recently hit two separate Amazon.com best-seller lists with the new book “Trendsetters.” Orlando, Fla. – October 6, 2011 – “Dr. Lisa” Lang, President of the Science of Business, recently joined a select group of business experts and entrepreneurs to collaborate and co-write the business and marketing book titled Trendsetters: The World’s Leading Experts Reveal Top Trends To Help You Achieve Greater Health, Wealth and Success! The book was released by CelebrityPress™, a leading business, marketing and health book publisher. Trendsetters: The World’s Leading Experts Reveal Top Trends To Help You Achieve Greater Health, Wealth and Success! was released on Thursday, October 6, 2011 and features top advice from leading entrepreneurs, business owners and marketing experts from around the world. The authors tackle an array of subjects ranging from health, wealth, marketing and business success. Dr. Lisa contributed a chapter titled “Velocity Manufacturing” which is based on her Velocity Scheduling System Coaching Program for scheduling highly custom job shops and machine shops. On the day of release, Trendsetters reached best-seller status in two Amazon.com categories: Entrepreneurship and Direct Marketing. Dr Lisa was selected by the editor for an Editor's Choice Award for her Velocity Manufacturing chapter. And, after such a successful release she will be recognized by The National Academy of Best-Selling Authors™, an organization that honors authors from many of the leading independent best-seller lists. Dr. Lisa is the President of the Science of Business and has recently worked with Dr Goldratt who is the father of Theory of Constraints and author of The Goal. Science of Business specializes in increasing profits of highly custom manufacturers and job shops by applying Theory of Constraints, Lean and Six Sigma to operations with Velocity Scheduling System and to engineering with Project Velocity System and to marketing with Mafia Offers. About the Book: Are YOU a TRENDSETTER? By definition, a Trendsetter is not a follower. So, what is a Trendsetter? Is it a leader? Leadership can mean leading in thought, word or deed, or some combination of all three. In the Business World, thought has no future if bounded by inaction - commonly referred to as 'analysis paralysis' - so thought and deed are invariably intertwined. Now combine those two with the 'word' portion of the trifecta of thought, word and deed, and now...we have the prospect of leadership and success. So, are you a Trendsetter? You may be. There is no prescription for one, but you can compare your goals and achievements with the benchmarks made by those in this book. In this book, we give you a number of our Celebrity Experts® who are Trailblazers and Trendsetters. They have done it! These are successful experts who made their mark and share with you how they and their concepts developed. Can Trendsetting be emulated? Absolutely, but you, yourself, will have to personally work through the stages of thought, word and deed...just like these leaders have. May you be crowned by your definition of Success! What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. ~ Zig Ziglar To order a copy of the book: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0983340463/ref=as_li_tf_til?tag=thescienceofb-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0983340463&adid=01VV9ZBERTVPK9EP6DN3 About Celebrity Press™: Celebrity Press™ is a business book publisher that publishes books from thought leaders around the world. Celebrity Press™ specializes in helping its authors grow their businesses through book publishing. Celebrity Press™ has published books alongside Brian Tracy, Dr. Ivan Misner, Ron LeGrand, Mari Smith, Kelly O’Neil, Alexis Martin Neely and many of the biggest experts across diverse fields. ### keywords: Dr Lisa Lang, Dr Lisa, Velocity Manufacturing, custom manufacturing, Theory of Constraints, Velocity Scheduling System, Science of Business, CelebrityPress, business book, marketing book, business book publisher, marketing book publisher, business book publishing company

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Precision Machining Job Shop Scheduling Client Success Story

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Manufacturing and Theory of Constraints Expert Dr. Lisa Lang Shares Client Success Story Tanya DiSalvo, President of Criterion Tool, shares her story of how her precision machine shop used Velocity Scheduling System to achieve record profits.   Green Valley, AZ – November 14, 2012 – “Dr. Lisa” Lang, President of the Science of Business and Theory of Constraints expert, is proud to share one of many client success stories. Tanya DiSalvo is the President of Criterion Tool (founded in 1953) and an active member of both NTMA (National Tooling and Machining Association) and PMPA (Precision Metal Products Association).  Tanya has utilized Dr. Lisa’s Velocity Scheduling System at her machine shop to improve on-time delivery and reduce lead times. Tanya DiSalvo’s case study and success story (written by Mike Touzeau) can be found at https://www.velocityschedulingsystem.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Tanya_Success_Story_v5.pdf Here is an excerpt: “It’s so different from what we’ve seen in the world of manufacturing that it sounded too good to be true. At first as a team we couldn’t get our arms around it, but Dr. Lisa said she was going to give me my money back if it didn’t work, so we were going to do everything she said.” They liked the homework, but several of her 30 employees, including her dad, who was then  consulting and observing as he neared retirement, bet some real cash against her that it wasn’t going to work. “I was pretty sure they thought this was just another flavor of the month. Before VSS we were all frustrated,” she remembers, because they were always  trying to manage the “slop,” as she calls it—the jobs that got bogged down and often carried into the next month,  with select customers always suffering. Once they saw how the system could facilitate movement of jobs, things started clicking. “As we worked through the Velocity Scheduling process, we got more and more in control. We could focus our resources where we needed them the most. We didn’t have to monitor the jobs, the deadlines, the priorities anymore.” “It was all the  same people just changing their focus.” To learn specifically what Tanya did to improve her machine shop scheduling, watch a 47 minute webinar on “How to Get More Jobs Done Faster” at https://www.velocityschedulingsystem.com/webinar/ “Dr. Lisa” Lang is one of the foremost Theory of Constraints experts in the world and a sought after manufacturing expert having been named the 2012 Manufacturing Trendsetter in the USA Today for her inexpensive and guaranteed Velocity Scheduling System Coaching Program that has dramatically improved performance of well over 100 highly custom job shops and machine shops.  She has also appeared in CBS News, The Wall Street Journal, Finance.com, About.com, Gear Technology, CNBC, MoldMaking Technology, The Fabricator, NTMA’s The Record and many others. She is active in helping the reshoring of  manufacturing back to the U.S. and in the NTMA, PMA, and AMT communities having helped member companies to reduce their lead-times and improve due date performance. She worked with Dr. Goldratt who is the father of Theory of Constraints and author of the bestselling book, The Goal. Dr Lisa is the President of the Science of Business specializing in increasing profits of highly custom manufacturers by applying Theory of Constraints, Lean and Six Sigma (TLS) to operations with Velocity Scheduling System and to engineering/design with Project Velocity System and to marketing with her Mafia Offer Boot Camp. ### Contact: Dr Lisa Lang Science of Business, Inc DrLisa@ScienceofBusiness.com   keywords: Dr Lisa Lang, Dr Lisa, Theory of Constraints, Velocity Scheduling System, job shop scheduling, machine shop scheduling, Goldratt, reshoring manufacturing, Success Story, Case Study

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Dr Lisa and Theory of Constraints featured in Wire Forming Technology International

Dr Lisa was featured in the Fall 2011 Wire Forming Technology International magazine with an article titled: Velocity Manufacturing: Stop focusing on efficiency and focus on velocity to reduce lead and queue times, and to increase lead-time predictability, on-time deliveries, quality and cash flow. The article explains how highly custom job shops and machine shops can schedule and change their thinking using Goldratt's Theory of Constraints to get more jobs done faster with the same people and resources. You can check it out here: WFTI Fall 2011 Velocity Manufacturing Article

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Manufacturing Expert Dr. Lisa Lang Discusses Theory of Constraints in The Fabricator

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Manufacturing Expert Dr. Lisa Lang Discusses Theory of Constraints in Article  Dr. Lisa Lang, inventor of the Velocity Scheduling System, featured in a November 2011 article discussing her expertise in Theory of Constraints  Green Valley, AZ – October 10, 2012 – “Dr. Lisa” Lang, President of the Science of Business and inventor of the Velocity Scheduling System is featured in a November 2011 article in The Fabricator and TheFabricator.com, where she was interviewed about Theory of Constraints and Velocity Scheduling System.  The article also highlights two of Dr. Lisa’s clients, CMI Industry America and Guntert & Zimmerman.  The article, titled “High mix, fast delivery--on time: How high-mix, low-volume fabricators adapt the Theory of Constraints,” was written by Tim Heston.  Tim Heston explores how Dr. Lisa helped both clients utilize the Theory of Constraints to keep the chaos of their manufacturing in check, but allow for dealing with emergencies while increasing productivity. Dr. Lisa remarks on the negatives of focusing on efficiency.   Below is an excerpt:

 TOC goes against traditional manufacturing thinking, in which workers produce more than is needed to reduce the number of setups and maximize the efficiency of all resources. The forecast, after all, says these parts will be needed eventually, so why not produce them now? The problem is, of course, that sales forecasts are notoriously inaccurate, so those parts may never be needed. Also, producing so many unneeded parts floods the floor with work-in-process (WIP), while jobs in queue sit for days or weeks waiting for large batches to work their way through.

 Dr. Lisa offers her expertise throughout the article, which explores five main topics: “The Value of Throughput,” “The Importance of Flow,” “Drum-Buffer-Rope for High Mix,” “Full Kit and Accurate Information” and “Enabling Change.” The full article can be found here: http://www.thefabricator.com/article/forceos/high-mix-fast-delivery--on-time “Dr. Lisa” Lang is one of the foremost Theory of Constraints experts in the world and a sought after manufacturing expert having been named the 2012 Manufacturing Trendsetter in the USA Today for her inexpensive and guaranteed Velocity Scheduling System Coaching Program that has dramatically improved performance of well over 100 highly custom job shops and machine shops.  She has also appeared in CBS News, The Wall Street Journal, Finance.com, About.com, NY Daily News, CNBC, The Boston Globe, The Miami Herald, and others. She is active in helping reshore manufacturing back to the U.S. and in the NTMA, PMA, and AMT communities having helped member companies to reduce their lead-times and improve due date performance. She worked with Dr. Goldratt who is the father of Theory of Constraints and author of the bestselling book, The Goal.  Dr Lisa is the President of the Science of Business specializing in increasing profits of highly custom manufacturers by applying Theory of Constraints, Lean and Six Sigma to operations with Velocity Scheduling System and to engineering/design with Project Velocity System and to marketing with her Mafia Offer Boot Camp. Learn more about Dr. Lisa and job shop scheduling at https://www.velocityschedulingsystem.com/ and check out her 47-minute webinar “How To Get More Jobs Done Faster” at www.velocitySchedulingSystem.com/webinar/. ### Contact: Dr Lisa Lang President, Science of Business Inc DrLisa@ScienceofBusiness.com keywords: Dr Lisa Lang, Dr Lisa, Theory of Constraints, Velocity Scheduling System, high mix low volume, drum buffer rope, job shop scheduling, Goldratt Links: http://prlog.org/11996440 http://bit.ly/WSz4zB http://bit.ly/WSA4Ul

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Registration is LIVE!

www.VelocitySchedulingSystem.com Thanks for your questions, comments and feedback to the special reports and videos. Video #3 is in the works so stay tuned for that. As I stated in one of my first emails, I was looking to get your feedback so I could fine tune our system to make sure it was ready to release. And in the process, I would provide you some free content and longer explanations of how you could put The Goal to work in your shop. In Video #2, I challenged you with the first actions to take if you really wanted to improve your operations -- and some of you were even brave enough to take the recommended actions! The next actions are customized for YOU. And this is where the Coaching Program takes over. So we are now ready to open registration of the Velocity Scheduling System Coaching Program! With this system you will - increase your due date performance - decrease your lead-time - and, increase communication while decreasing chaos And more importantly you will do this WITHOUT a consultant camped in your conference room and certainly without the expense. We will guide you and your team through the steps to achieve these results -- and provide the coaching necessary to customize it for your situation. Why is this important now, when most of us have MARKET CONSTRAINTS? For 2 reasons. First to exploit a market constraint you must have your operations in order -- you need to have close to perfect DDP, you need to have shorter lead-times than your competitors, and you need to be able to guarantee these commitments. And second, if you need to cut people, the system will help you to determine where you can cut and have the least impact on your ability to deliver. So, if you're ready to take control and tackle your market constraint, it would be my pleasure to share our experience and provide the system and guidance necessary to make it happen! To register go to: www.VelocitySchedulingSystem.com

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Manufacturing heads back to USA (reshoring) - USATODAY.com

This article in the USAToday on reshoring manufacturing back to the US is interesting and not at all surprising. Regarding this part of the article: "Products that are labor-intensive and churned out in high volumes, such as apparel, textiles and TVs, will likely continue to be made overseas. So will those that are relatively inexpensive to ship but high-priced, such as laptops and cellphones, Ellis says. Goods are increasingly being made near customers, a trend that's driving U.S. makers to build factories in fast-growing China." I did an RMTMA (Rocky Mountion Tooling and Machining Association) dinner presentation several years ago titled "China, India, Tawain ... Oh My!" and my contention then was (and still is) that the more flexible and custom you are as a manufacturer the more likely your work will stay here. The faster you can get highly custom work through your shop -- the more secure your future is. I suggest taking a look at the work you hate to do -- and figure out a way to make it easier, start loving it, and go get more of it because your competition hates it too! The shops participating in our Velocity Scheduling System program are seeing their lead-times cut by more than 50%. If they can have something ready to ship while everyone else is still complaining about it -- they are going to be extremely successful in the long run.

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R&D Tax Credit to Improve Job Shop Scheduling

The Tax Extenders Package signed by President Obama on December 17th, 2010 calls for a two year extension, retroactive to 1/1/10 and through 12/31/11 for the R&D Tax Credit. The definition of Research and Development (R&D) is much broader than people realize.  Activities and costs associated with developing and/or improving a product or process can potentially generate R&D Tax Credits. This means that your tuition for the Velocity Scheduling System Coaching Program may be covered -- check with your accountant. So learn a new way to run and schedule your shop, get on-time, get happy customers, get more customers --- and then get a tax credit!  How cool is that! And even if, for some reason, it doesn't apply to you.  Velocity Scheduing System Coaching Program is so reasonably priced it may not be worth the effort to look for a writeoff or funding. Now, the only other question you may have is --- Yes, but will Velocity Scheduling System work for me?  Will it work in my my shop with our unique situations and challenges? I don't know, because even though over a hundred highly custom job shops have had fantastic success, that doesn't mean you will.  But I'm willing to investigate it with you.  So if you'd like a private strategy session to discuss your company, your unique scheduling challenges and how/if our scheduling solution will work for you, you can sign up here, there's no charge:

https://www.VelocitySchedulingSystem.com/private

You'll need to enter your name and phone number so that we can call you to schedule a time to talk.  I am personally doing these sessions and we will be going deep into YOUR scheduling challenges.  I will hold nothing back and give you my best advice, even if it is that you should NOT sign up for VSS.  Time slots are limited SO SIGN UP NOW! Dr Lisa President, Science of Business

P.S. Sign up for the no charge strategy session here:  www.VelocitySchedulingSystem.com/private  This is your first step to getting on-time in 2011 and then to getting a tax credit!

P.P.S.  And some states have their own R&D Tax Credit too.  I know Ohio has one, so check with your accountant on that too.  But don't spend too much time, VSS typically pays back in a couple weeks.  It's based on the Theory of Constraints Simplified Drum Buffer Rope, and it works FAST!

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Manufacturing Expert Dr Lisa Lang is featured in MoldMaking Technology Magazine

The Secret to Getting On Time and Reducing Leadtimes

Create a competitive advantage by refocusing your job scheduling strategy.

Article From: MoldMaking Technology, Dr. Lisa Lang, President from Science of Business Job scheduling plays a big role in our on-time delivery performance and leadtime, which determines our competitive position within our industry. This is particularly true as competition has gotten more fierce in recent years. Only the best shops have survived. And those shops have very good quality and lead the pack in expertise. This means that scheduling is where and how you can really stand out. But there’s no question that scheduling has its challenges; and, every time we encounter a challenge our schedule is out of date and requires an update. We spend a lot of time updating the schedule. Following are just a few of the common scheduling challenges that cause us to continually update the schedule:

• Clients change their mind
• Vendors aren’t always reliable
• Mix can vary wildly and so our constraint moves
• Employees do not always have the right skill and their discipline is lacking
• Processes are not reliable
• Machines and tools break
• Quality is not near perfect
• Data is not readily available nor accurate nor communicated
• Communication between silos is difficult

Mold shops usually don’t have the luxury of making the same parts over and over again. The mix of work and amount of repair/emergency work a shop has can change so dramatically week to week that their bottlenecks can move, making on-time delivery a real challenge. Most shops have tried a number of strategies to improve their on-time delivery and reduce leadtimes—e.g., updated ERP or scheduling software, used some lean techniques or hired an expeditor—but, the results are usually not substantial. And, that’s because typical solutions address the various symptoms, but don’t address the root cause. So how do you address the root cause? How can you dramatically improve your scheduling?

The Secret Solution

The secret is to stop focusing on efficiency. When you are willing to do that, and put a more effective scheduling system in place, you create a buffer to better absorb all those sources of variability listed above. If you are willing to give this strategy a try and your competitors continue to cling to efficiency, you can create an incredible competitive advantage. So, what does it mean to be efficient? The definition from Dictionary.com is “performing or functioning in the best possible manner with the least waste of time and effort.” Money and cost should be added to that definition. One of the ways we typically apply efficiency in a shop is by keeping all our equipment and/or people busy so that we don’t waste any capacity and have the highest possible utilization. But to keep our key resources busy they all must have a job to work on, and to increase the likelihood that all resources have work, we typically make all jobs in house available to be worked on. “Available to be worked on” means included in our work-in-process. This max’s out your work-in-process and increases the pile of work at every work center. That way all key resources have a very high probability of having something to work on. This is particularly relevant in shops where the mix of work can change from week to week. That’s one of the things we do in the name of efficiency. According to Little’s Law there is a direct correlation between the amount of work-in-process we have and our leadtime. The higher our work-in-process, the longer our leadtimes. Figure 1 is an illustration showing the relationship between work-in-process and leadtime.

The more jobs that wait for their turn, the longer the average queuing time, leading to longer production leadtimes. Example 1 has the most work-in-process and longest leadtime. And, conversely, Example 3 has the least work-in-process and the shortest leadtime. So, as you increase work-in-process, you are also increasing your leadtime—not to mention the amount of cash you have tied up in raw materials. But wait, there’s more—on-time delivery decreases. The diagram does not include the effect of variability. But if it did, it would show that the variability of production leadtime is increased as the queue grows. So the effect of high work-in-process just gets more dramatic the more variability you have. This directly reduces the on-time delivery because it is more difficult to predict the exact production leadtime and to confirm orders accordingly. High work-in-process can also have an impact on quality. Many production failures occur early in the routing, but are detected much later in the production process (usually at final inspection). If work-in-process is high, the average leadtime is also high, causing a long lag time between the production steps and the final inspection. That means the final inspection step occurs a long time after the step that caused the failure. And because so much time has passed, it can be difficult to determine and correct the root cause of the quality problem, making improvement very difficult. Thus, the higher the work-in-process, the harder it is to detect and correct quality problems. All of this leads to why you should stop focusing on efficiency. As you stop focusing on efficiency and reduce work-in-process, here’s what happens: Queue time reduces Leadtime reduces Leadtime predictability increases On-time delivery increases Quality increases Cash flow increases As a result of these improvements, your production leadtime becomes much shorter (if you do it right) than your quoted leadtime. This difference can be used in two ways. First, it creates a buffer allowing you to absorb a fair amount of variability and further enhancing your on-time delivery performance. And secondly, the difference is so big that you can also afford to reduce the quoted leadtime to customers.

 Summary

The combination of a shorter quoted leadtime and 99-percent + due date performance creates a competitive advantage. Understanding that all of this is easier said than done, but it’s not physically hard to do, it is just mentally challenging because we don’t have intuition around this approach. Take some time to digest the negative effects an efficiency focus can have on your shop scheduling. LearnMore: Check out Dr Lisa’s 47 minute webinar How to Get More Jobs Done Faster at www.velocitySchedulingSystem.com/webinar. Contributor:  “Dr. Lisa” Lang is one of the foremost Theory of Constraints experts in the world and a sought after manufacturing expert having been named the 2012 Manufacturing Trendsetter in the USA Today for her inexpensive and guaranteed Velocity Scheduling System Coaching Program that has dramatically improved performance of well over 100 highly custom job shops and machine shops.  She has also appeared in CBS News, The Wall Street Journal, Finance.com, About.com, NY Daily News, CNBC, The Boston Globe, The Miami Herald, and others. She is active in helping reshore manufacturing back to the U.S.  and in the NTMA, PMA, and AMT communities having helped member companies to reduce their lead-times and improve due date performance. She worked with Dr. Goldratt who is the father of Theory of Constraints and author of the bestselling book, The Goal. Dr Lisa is the President of the Science of Business specializing in increasing profits of highly custom manufacturers by applying Theory of Constraints, Lean and Six Sigma to operations with Velocity Scheduling System and to engineering/design with Project Velocity System and to marketing with her Mafia Offer Boot Camp. Here's the link to the article in MoldMaking Technology Magazine:  http://www.moldmakingtechnology.com/articles/the-secret-to-getting-on-time-and-reducing-leadtimes.

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The Goal by Goldratt is on Amazon Top Executives Book Club

By Dr Lisa Lang

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In an interview with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezo, Jon Fortt for CNBC reported:

 This summer he (Amazon CEO Jeff Bezo) spent time at Lab126, a Silicon Valley outpost about a mile from Apple headquarters where Amazon engineers hash out hardware designs. And he also hosted three all-day book clubs with Amazon's top executives, capped by nice dinners at the end. Bezos said he used the books as frameworks for sketching out the future of the company. Which books? Bezos was kind enough to share the titles.

• The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
• The Innovator's Solution by Clayton Christensen
• The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt

Read the entire story here:  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20130925133311-291225-amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-had-his-top-execs-read-these-three-books

The Goal was originally published in 1984 but is still very relevant today.  And, as you likely know, it take place in a machine shop.  Many job shops and machine shops use The Goal as their Bible.  The only problem is that most have no idea how to apply it to their unique shop. Well, I have good news.  If you own or manage a highly custom job shop or machine shop and want to apply what you read in The Goal to YOUR shop, you can do that with expert guidance very inexpensively.  Just check out the Velocity Scheduling System (VSS)  Coaching Program. VSS is NOT software but a visual manual scheduling system developed specifically for highly custom job shops and machine shops which are typically low volume high mix environments where the constraint can move week to week or even day to day. Who's the expert that would guide you?  Well that's Dr Lisa Lang.  She is one of the foremost Theory of Constraints experts who has worked with Dr Goldratt and specializes in applying Theory of Constraints to highly custom job shops and machine shops. Check out Velocity Scheduling System here:  www.VelocitySchedulingSystem.com When you're there check out the free webinar called "How to Get More Jobs Done Faster".  You'll be glad you did!

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