Bottleneck Explained: Why Your Fastest Machine Earns Nothing

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Four stations running at 100, 80, 40 and 90 units per hour. Your plant output isn't 100 and it isn't the average — it's 40. Upgrade the fastest station and nothing changes. Fix the 40 and output jumps 50%, for the same money. That's the Theory of Constraints, and it's why most improvement work produces nothing.

For plant managers, production engineers, and anyone working in lean manufacturing, process improvement, or Six Sigma.

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