From the course: Constraint and Bottleneck Management
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How to increase system capacity
From the course: Constraint and Bottleneck Management
How to increase system capacity
- Looking at this system of four processes, made up of two pairs of coupled processes, we can calculate the system theoretical capacity at 48 units per hour. To do this, we simplify the two pairs of coupled processes to effectively treat each coupled pair as a single process with an inventory buffer between them. If we are capacity-constrained, we will be urgently looking for ideas on what to do to increase the capacity of the system. With the clarity of this process map and all the process-capability data we've collected, we've got several plausible options of what we can do. To increase the speed of the coupled A-B pair of processes, we could increase the speed of Process A, which limits the pair of them coupled together. This could either be by just buying more of that process, an extra machine, more labor, or through process improvements, perhaps better tools, training, improved programming, or new methodologies. We could also work on improving the availability of either Process A…
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