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Capacity, Bottlenecks & Constraints
Find the bottleneck and manage the whole flow around it.
Inside this lesson
- Define capacity as available time divided by cycle time.
- Identify the bottleneck as the step with the lowest capacity.
- Explain why the Theory of Constraints focuses improvement on the bottleneck.
- Compute utilization as load divided by capacity.
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