Developed by Dr Eliyahu Goldratt, a physicist, and popularized in the business novel “The Goal”. A management philosophy based on finding, understanding, and using the constraints (bottlenecks) in a system which limit the system throughput. It also includes a set of thinking tools for system improvement and a project management method (critical chain) with benefits over conventional project management. The constraint step is not necessarily the same as the pacemaker step in lean processing but if the output of a lean process is to be increased then constraint(s) will need to be broken.
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