CTP--New Tools, Old Theories

One of the main tenets of the Theory of Constraint is that you need to move the resources (staff) to the areas that are bottlenecks. And if that means leaving a piece of equipment idle, while resources are focused on the bottleneck, then that is better use of resources. Running a non-bottlenecked resource continuously to create a high utilization rate for that one piece of equipment can result in lower overall throughput.