Capacity and Bottleneck Analysis
Finds the actual constraint in a workflow and shows why improving anything else changes nothing but the size of the queue.
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Running it, start to finish
- Map each stage with real capacity and note where work piles up.
- Check your planned investment against section 3 before committing.
- Exploit the constraint fully before buying capacity.
What you get back
The output this produces, every time.
- Locates the real constraint and cross-checks capacity figures against where queues actually form.
- Says directly when your planned investment will not increase throughput.
- Exhausts the free improvements at the constraint before recommending you spend anything.
Getting better results
Where this usually goes wrong, and how to avoid it.
- Trust the queues over the numbers. Where they disagree, the capacity figures are usually optimistic. Observed inventory is measured; rated capacity is claimed.
- Do section 4 before section 6. Exploiting the existing constraint typically yields double digits for nearly nothing, and it is routinely skipped for a purchase.
- Expect the constraint to move. Section 7 tells you where. Planning for it beats rediscovering it three weeks after the investment lands.
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