CASE: The California-Illini Manufacturing Company's (CI) plant operates in the rural central valley of California. It is family-owned and run. CI's plant manager, a grandson of the founder, went to school with many of the employees. Despite this family atmosphere, CI is the largest producer of plain and hard-faced replacement tillage tools in the United States. It averages annual sales of $13 million. Farmers use tillage tools to cultivate the land. Hard-facing, the application of brazed …showed first 75 words of 2220 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2220 total…to maintain in front of each constraint, finding ways to get rid of WIP, implementing a JIT system for ordering raw materials, introduce quality control, and consider tools such as the value chain or ABC/ABM. I would recommend implementing a Theory of Constraint approach for California Illini. Benefits of the TOC approach would be; more effective utilization of scarce human and material resources; lower levels of work-in-process inventory, and better responsiveness to customer needs.