What Does Theory of Constraints (TOC) Mean?

Techopedia Explains Theory of Constraints (TOC)

  • What to improve?

  • How much improvement is required?

  • How to produce the improvement?

  • Recognize the system’s constraints

  • Make a decision on how to make use of the system’s constraints

  • Subordinate everything else to the previously mentioned decision

  • Elevate the system’s constraints; that is, make other significant modifications required to break the constraints

  • If the constraints have been broken in the prior steps, return to step one