Theory of Constraints Checklist

 
Checklist to be used to deploy a sequence of improvement projects to address a resource constraint in a system.
 
  • Mark all that apply.
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    • What is/are your system's resource constraint(s)?
    • In what ways can you exploit the system's constraint? What projects can you deploy to minimize the waste of the constraint?
    • In what ways can you subordinate everything else to the above projects that target the constraint? What projects can you deploy to maximize throughput of the constraint?
    • In what ways can you elevate, or lift the restriction, of the constraint? What projects can provide additional resources to the constraint?
    • Through these steps has your system's constraint been addressed? If so, return to the first question.
     
    Eliyahu M. Goldratt. "The Haystack Syndrome: Sifting Information Out of the Data Ocean". (North River Press, 1990), p. 59-63.
     
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