The factory bottleneck
A line is slow, every station looks busy, and adding people does not help. Where is the constraint?
The challenge
A factory line is missing its target. Every station looks busy.
Your task
Find the real constraint without adding more people first.
Before you look
What’s your answer?
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I’ll skip the guessAnswer revealed
Look for the station that governs the whole line, not the noisiest one.
- Map the flow.
- Find the constraint.
- Protect it before you optimize elsewhere.
Why this works
Improving a non-constraint does not raise throughput.
Improve the system at the constraint.
How did you do?
Your response helps us tune difficulty.