Overproduction is a particular form of waste which many companies carelessly overlook.
Along with excessive, unnecessary inventory levels and often poor quality, overproduction also wastes the available resources within a particular system. The fundamental philosophy of the Theory of Constraints is identification of the specific process or operation which individually limits the total performance of an entire system of operations. Once this limiting process, or system constraint, has been identified, additional resources should be focuses on the improvement of this process. This project explores the integration of these two philosophies.