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- How a Print Shop Found 35% More Capacity in a Week
· Small Business, Theory of Constraints, Case Studies, Operations
A fine art printing company in Kent, WA was drowning in rework and backlog. The constraint was obvious once we looked: the graphic artist was doing every job twice. A pre-flight checklist and a simple scheduling change fixed it.
- From 'Cost Center' to 'Growth Engine': A Theory of Constraints Success Story
· Theory of Constraints, Medical Devices, Case Studies, Operations
How applying the Theory of Constraints 5 Focusing Steps transformed a reactive, email-only support model into a white-glove customer success engine for a high-value ultrasound research systems manufacturer.
- One Tool Was Starving Four Teams
· Theory of Constraints, Medical Devices, Case Studies
A clinical ultrasound project was six months behind schedule. The constraint was not the engineering — it was the register map tool that every team depended on and nobody had questioned.
- Two Months Back on an 18-Month Project
· Theory of Constraints, Medical Devices, Case Studies
How standardizing a communication protocol on a smartphone-powered defibrillator project unblocked an entire engineering team and saved two months of development time.