Abstract
Under fairly special circumstances, there are some special methods that can be used to attempt to increase the production rate of some production line systems. In this paper an attempt has been made to use the theory of constraint (TOC) approach to identify the critical machines. Various design alternatives are considered to increase throughput of the critical machine. This process is continued till the required throughput is achieved for the entire system. For large production line systems this approach will be tedious and time consuming. Hence we have attempted to generalize the TOC approach by integer linear programming (ILP) to increase the throughput. Data has been collected from an automobile ancillary manufacturing industry to validate the model. The TOC embedded ILP has been used to increase the throughput with minimum investment.
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