From the OPT to the Theory of Constraints: advances and myths

Although Theory of Constraints (TOC) is a relatively new approach for organizational managing, there is a lot of misunderstanding regarding this subject. In order to shed some light on particulars TOC production aspects concerning to its finite capacity scheduling proposal named as Drum-Buffer-Rope (DBR), this article aims to discuss that the DBR logic is not necessarily the same as that one known as OPT software as well as backward and forward scheduling definitions can be different from that presented in the literature.

Theory of Constraints; Drum-Buffer-Rope; OPT; Production Scheduling