About this Presentation
The USMC (US Marine Corp.) repair facility leadership at Albany, GA shares their TOC-focused seven-year journey of continuous improvement. They are a large maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) operation responsible for reconstituting and regenerating mission capability for all the wheel and track vehicles in the USMC inventory. The mission capability requirement reach spans the world making it a true global logistical challenge. They share their experience of how they achieved these significant improvements.
What Will You Learn
To help you get the most value from this session, we’ve highlighted a few key points. These takeaways capture the main ideas and practical insights from the presentation, making it easier for you to review, reflect, and apply what you’ve learned.
This session shows how TOC moved from concept to sustained transformation inside the U.S. Marine Corps, turning chronic cost overruns, schedule slippage, long repair cycles, and runaway WIP into measurable logistics gains.
A key insight is that success did not come from isolated tools alone. It came from combining Critical Chain, simplified DBR, WIP and induction control, throughput focus, and strong leadership that aligned people around readiness rather than local efficiency.
The case is especially compelling because the results were concrete: major reductions in WIP and repair cycle time, higher monthly output, and the ability to absorb additional workload without added funding.
Beyond the pilot wins, the session explores how TOC was institutionalized through communication, employee buy-in, policy and procedure changes, daily production meetings, and later integration with Lean thinking.
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