Yep,
It has to do with manufacturing bottlenecks and productivity...see
Goldratt's book called "The Goal" for a simple exposition of it.

Timothy Reeves
ECD Circuit Board Division
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> ----------
> From:         Vaughan, Ralph H
> Sent:         Monday, January 24, 2000 8:22 AM
> Subject:      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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