Theory of constraints: review and bibliometric analysis

Ikeziri, Lucas Martins; Souza, Fernando Bernardi de; Gupta, Mahesh; Fiorini, Paula De Camargo

doi:10.1080/00207543.2018.1518602

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“…Looked at more generally, a potentially useful way to interpret our findings is within the context of the theory of constraints [45,46]. The guiding approach of our analysis was to look for those constraints which, if lifted, would have the largest effect on system performance.…”

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Masterplanning at the Port of Dover: The Use of Discrete-Event Simulation in Managing Road Traffic

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The Port of Dover is Europe’s busiest ferry port, handling £119 billion or 17% of the UK’s annual trade in goods. The Port is constrained geographically to a small area and faces multiple challenges, both short- and long-term, with managing the flow of five million vehicles per year to/from mainland Europe. This article describes some of the work that the Port is doing to minimize the impact of port road traffic on the local community and environment using discrete-event simulation modeling. Modeling is particularly valuable in identifying where future bottlenecks are likely to form within the Port due to projected growth in freight traffic and comparing the effectiveness of different interventions to cope with growth. One of our key findings is that space which can be used flexibly is far more valuable than dedicated space. This is supported by the much greater reduction in traffic congestion that is expected to be achieved given a 10% increase in freight traffic by reallocating space at the front of the system to temporarily hold vehicles waiting to pass through border control and check-in compared to extending the amount of space for ferry embarkation at the rear of the system. The importance of flexible space has implications for port design that can be applied more broadly. Modeling is also useful in identifying critical thresholds for vehicle processing times that would cause the system to become overwhelmed. Increasing the check-in time by just three to five minutes, for example, would completely exceed the Port’s capacity and produce indefinite queueing. This finding has important implications for Brexit planning. From a wider context, the research presented here nicely illustrates how simulation can be used to instill more evidence-based thinking into port masterplanning and support “green port” and other corporate sustainability initiatives.

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“…Further to that, Figure 1 shows the corresponding percentage of each philosophy; the highest percentage corresponds to SS (30.19%), and then the LM and L6S follow with 24.53 and 26.42%, respectively. The philosophy with the least number of review papers is the TOC, mostly because it has already been proved to be inefficient to solve multi-constraints problems (Rahman, 1998;Ikeziri et al, 2019). While Figure 1 shows that there is a higher interest for the studying philosophies the past 6 years, the results does not capture in detail the trends, because the articles used for Figure 1 were review papers.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…They understand well the causes and consequences of choices in terms of impact on the system, the products, the employees, and more, in order to do their best to succeed. (Bendell, 2006;Gupta and Jain, 2013;Nithia et al, 2015;Pacheco et al, 2015;Costa et al, 2018;Ismail et al, 2019) SS (Bendell, 2006;Oke, 2007;Kumar and Antony, 2008;Gamal Aboelmaged, 2010;Pacheco et al, 2015;Costa et al, 2018;Patel and Desai, 2018) L6S (Alsmadi and Khan, 2010;Antony et al, 2017;Alexander et al, 2019;Siregar et al, 2019) TOC (Kasemset, 2011) 2 BFT Lead-time reduction LM (Gupta and Jain, 2013;Bhamu and Singh Sangwan, 2014;Pinho and Mendes, 2017;Costa et al, 2018;Gladysz and Buczacki, 2018) SS (Oke, 2007;Kumar and Antony, 2008;Costa et al, 2018;Patel and Desai, 2018) L6S (Alsmadi and Khan, 2010;Antony et al, 2017;Alexander et al, 2019) TOC (Rahman, 1998;Ikeziri et al, 2019) TQM (Nandurkar et al, 2014) 3 BFT Quality improvement LM (Gupta and Jain, 2013;Bhamu and Singh Sangwan, 2014;Yusup et al, 2015;Pinho and Mendes, 2017;Costa et al, 2018;Ismail et al, 2019) SS (Oke, 2007;Gamal Aboelmaged, 2010;…”

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Product Quality Improvement Policies in Industry 4.0: Characteristics, Enabling Factors, Barriers, and Evolution Toward Zero Defect Manufacturing

Psarommatis

Prouvost

May

et al. 2020

Front. Comput. Sci.

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In the competitive market of manufacturing, quality is a criterion of primary importance in order to win market share. Quality improvement must be coupled with performance point of view. Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigma, Total Quality Management, Theory of Constraints, and their combination are philosophies dedicated to this goal. This study is a literature review on the implementation of these philosophies to improve quality of processes and products in a system, and also covers the commonalities and differences with Zero Defect Manufacturing (ZDM) philosophy. In this study, 45 articles have been analyzed. These articles have been selected by a research on several scientific libraries with specific keywords. The methodology is based on a list of information extracted from each paper. The data searched are on the tool selections, critical factors of implementations and the benefits obtained from them. Based on the review and analysis of the literature and practices, we provide the top 10 main components of the tools used for quality improvement, enabling factors, benefits, and barriers to implementation. Moreover, we present and discuss categorization of quality improvement methods and the way toward ZDM. The need of standardized toolkits for different levels of maturity in quality management systems and a better education have been enlightened. Thanks to technological improvement in information flow management, ZDM seems close to be achieved even though some new risks and wastes have to be taken care of within the implementation.

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“…Throughput logic could help to continuously measure and improve their performance by focusing on those problems 5,19 and make decisions taking into consideration their global impact measured in terms of final enterprises' results. 45 In this research, we try to make a contribution to address what other investigators pointed out as needs to deepen studies regarding the Throughput. Those needs are related to advances in research on calculation of optimal production mix preserving the system's capacity and development of a structured method supporting long-term decisions.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Chain substitution and successive approximation method: Throughput analysis at SMEs

García-Vidal

Pérez-Campdesuñer

Sánchez-Rodríguez

et al. 2019

International Journal of Engineering Business Management

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The purpose of this research work is to illustrate that using the logic of theory of constraints (TOC) concerning the Throughput is adequate in management decisions to improve performance in the context of small and medium enterprises. The TOC approach assumes the use of Throughput as an indicator of performance, and in this paper the method of chain substitution and successive approximation is proposed to analyze this indicator. After the implementation of the Throughput per hour analysis, the owner-manager changed her perspective about what her priorities should be in the exercise of the administrative process. The identification of the restriction of what prevented him from obtaining more money allowed him to make the decisions or courses of action that maximized the Throughput per hour, thus improving his performance as owner-manager, the performance of his enterprise and the economic situation of his employees. The originality of this article consists in the application of TOC approach through the design of the indicator Throughput per hour to analyse the performance of an entrepreneur and the application of the chain substitution and successive approximation method for the study of the restrictions that inhibit it.

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Theory of constraints: review and bibliometric analysis

Cited by 76 publications

References 179 publications

Masterplanning at the Port of Dover: The Use of Discrete-Event Simulation in Managing Road Traffic

Masterplanning at the Port of Dover: The Use of Discrete-Event Simulation in Managing Road Traffic

Product Quality Improvement Policies in Industry 4.0: Characteristics, Enabling Factors, Barriers, and Evolution Toward Zero Defect Manufacturing

Chain substitution and successive approximation method: Throughput analysis at SMEs

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