![]() ![]() Outsource bottleneck capacity to outside the organization.Add new producers (eg machines, people) at the bottleneck, even if they’re less efficient.Improve quality of upstream work to prevent bottleneck working on poor-quality work.Bypass parts past the bottleneck if it’s not strictly necessary.Prevent idling by running the bottleneck all the time, ensuring inventory upstream of the bottleneck, and preventing back-ups at the bottleneck.Increase capacity at the bottleneck through a variety of interventions. Constraints can be equipment, people, or policies.Even if a bottleneck costs $5/hour to run, if the factory is producing $1000 of goods per hour, then an hour of the bottleneck idling is costing $1000/hour. ![]() This means the value of an hour lost at the bottleneck is equal to the value of the entire system.By definition, the throughput of the system cannot be greater than the capacity of the bottleneck.
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