Srini Srinivasan, Missie Bowers and Ken Gilbert recently completed a book: Lean Maintenance Repair and Overhaul, published by McGraw Hill.

It describes how MRO organizations can achieve improvement in financial performance by applying the Theory of Constraints to guide the implementation of Lean manufacturing tools.

This Lean/TOC approach facilitates a growth strategy, by providing customer value, such as faster turnaround times, that the competition cannot match. Lean/TOC creates the capacity for this growth by eliminating waste.