Quotes About Eliyahu

They're measurements which express the goal of making money perfectly well, but which also permit you to develop operational rules for running your plant," he says. "There are three of them. Their names are throughput, inventory and operational expense.

Eli Goldratt passed away at his home in Israel on June 11th, 2011, in the company of his family and close friends.

Maybe I should start with a question," he says. "Do you agree that inventory is a liability?" "Of course, everybody knows that. And even if we didn't know it, the last few months have shown to what extent inventory is a liability.

You know what, it really highlights another problem. Changing the measurements' scale of importance, moving from one world into another, is without a doubt a culture change. Let's face it, that is exactly what we had to go through, a culture change. But how are we going to take the division through such a change?

the improvement efforts of other companies are misguided since they are aimed at achieving cost savings rather than being totally focused on improving the flow.

Wilke subscribed to the principles laid out in a seminal book about constraints in manufacturing, Eliyahu M. Goldratt's The Goal, published in 1984.