Martins wahre Logistik

Motivation – Why Machine Optimisation Alone Is Not Enough In production and manufacturing logistics, optimisation efforts often focus primarily on machinery and processing equipment. Typical approaches analyse machine performance, failures and efficiency using cause-and-effect diagrams, such as Ishikawa models. This perspective implicitly assumes that improving machine performance will automatically improve the overall system. However, this view only captures part of reality. Even if a machine is perfectly optimized, it is of little value if it lacks input material, required operating resources, or the ability to pass its output downstream because buffers or transfer points are full. In such situations, machines may be technically efficient, yet the overall system may perform poorly. This highlights a key limitation of machine-centred optimisation: it ignores the systemic importance of material flow and the interdependencies between processes. To address this, a different approach is n...