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How would you go about identifying a process bottleneck? What is a dead giveaway that a bottleneck exists?

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Bottlenecks are easy to spot in the average factory - they are the operations that have lots of work in progress stacked up in front of them. In this sense a non-bottleneck is any resource whose capacity is greater than the market demand placed on it and improvements here will be irrelevant in terms of increased throughput.

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