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Webinar – The Theory of Constraints in metal fabrication and machining workshops
Managing a fabrication or machining workshop to deliver customer orders on time.
In fabrication, sheet metal, and machining workshops, industrial workflows rely on highly variable discontinuous “job shop” environments: a wide variety of manufactured parts, complex process routings, highly heterogeneous production times, specialized skills, and shared resources operating under constantly changing priorities.
In these workshops, each manufacturing order follows a specific route through critical resources such as cutting operations, machining centers, welding stations, bending processes, heat treatments, inspection operations, and assembly phases.
In such complex environments, traditional management approaches quickly show their limitations. Operations management often relies on informal knowledge held by the most experienced personnel, with limited visibility over workflows and priorities that continuously evolve.
Date & Information
Date: Thursday, June 25, 2026
Time: 12:30 PM to 1:15 PM (CET / Paris)
4:30 PM to 5:15 PM (EDT / New York)
Free webinar in French
Mandatory registration
Workshops must therefore manage high operational variability, often with the feeling that bottlenecks are constantly shifting from one resource to another.
One of the major challenges is therefore to make workflows more visible in order to identify the real constraints that truly drive the overall performance of the workshop.
This renewed perspective helps to better understand congestion mechanisms, reduce constant firefighting and prioritization trade-offs, and regain operational control over workflows.
Drawing on practical experience from metal fabrication and mechanical processing workshops, this webinar shares key insights for improving flow management in fabrication, sheet metal, and machining environments: understanding the impact of variability on performance, identifying the true bottlenecks, recognizing the harmful effects of excessive work-in-progress, better synchronizing critical resources, and sustainably improving workshop flow efficiency.
The objective is to improve workflow management in order to reduce lead times, enhance delivery reliability, limit constant emergencies, and sustainably strengthen the performance of complex industrial workshops.
About Philip Marris
Philip started his Theory Of Constraints journey in 1986 when he joined Creative Output and worked with Eliyahu Goldratt, the founder of TOC and author of the worldwide bestseller “The Goal”. In 1994 he wrote a bestselling TOC textbook in French.
He is also a recognized Lean expert and combines Lean (Manufacturing/Engineering/Management) with TOC. He founded Marris Consulting based in Paris France in 2005.
Half their business is outside of France in Europe and the rest of the world. He is bilingual and bi-cultural French/English. He is very active in the TOC community. He has implemented TOC over 350 times in over 30 countries. His clients include: Air France, Altho Brets, Andritz-Laroche, ArcelorMittal, Ariane Group, Armée de l'Air et de l'Espace, Autoliv, Bulgari, Embraer, Circor, Getinge, GSK, IamGold, Ipsen, Louis Vuitton, McDonald's, Osram, Procter & Gamble, Rolex, Safran, Siemens, SKF, Société Générale, SNCF, TDK, Thales, Valeo and Veolia.
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About Marris Consulting
Marris Consulting is an industry consulting and training company specialized in the Theory of Constraints (ToC) and Critical Chain Project Management. We focus on improving the performance of manufacturing and process industries by using Constraints Management combined with Lean and Six Sigma. To boost project performance, we also use Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM), which we sometimes combine with Lean Engineering. Our 2-day performance audits, our performance consulting services and our project management, Lean, ToC & CCPM training by our industry consultants offer a wide range of solutions to help our clients around the world reach the highest possible levels of performance.