TOC was first promulgated in Eli Goldratt's book "The Goal"
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0884270610/o/qid=949013419/sr=2-1/104-1640932-4439639).
TOC advocates scheduling a factory based on the capacity of its bottleneck resources
(thus minimizing WIP) as opposed to JIT which distributes inventory throughout
the plant (i.e., "kanbans" in front of each process).
It is, by the way, a surprisingly readable book.
More at http://www.goldratt.com/ or send your WebFerret out after
"Goldratt theory of constraints" and you'll get all you could want.

J. Felts

-----Original Message-----
From:   Vaughan, Ralph H [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Monday, January 24, 2000 9:23 AM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        [TN] Theory of Constraints

'mornin' T-net,

I perusing the want-ads lately, I ran across a manufacturing engineering job
that was looking for familiarity with the 'Theory of Constraints'.  I have
asked around in mechanical design, design of experiments, and quality
groups, but no one seems to have ever heard of this.  So now I resort to
this know-all, see all, do-just-about-all  brain trust.  Anybody heard of
this?

Thanks

Ralph Vaughan

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