I don’t read book summaries. Neither should you. The following are mostly notes to myself, and are my interpretations.

Designing hardware has been keeping me super grounded since 2022. It feels like the start of my 2nd career. And, I feel like absorbing anything that could help me move forward. How different hardware giants build products, how assembly line should work, how operations work and such. In that hunt for learning, I came across The Goal. The book was written by Eliyahu Goldratt on the application of the theory of constraints to manufacturing and engineering processes.

I picked up the graphic novel version here to be able to digest better.

Instead of writing the typical book notes, I read this two times over with a simple toy car maker example (I was assembling a Lego car at the moment) and made a flowchart for my references later.

I found this to be a good primer book to get comfortable with operation setup esp. in production line units (in my context).