BottlenecksForums › Ask ACCA Tutor Forums › Ask the Tutor ACCA PM Exams › BottlenecksThis topic has 2 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 8 years ago by Chloe.Viewing 3 posts - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) AuthorPosts May 29, 2015 at 11:05 pm #250382 ChloeMemberTopics: 95Replies: 243☆☆☆I read the following on a PAPER F5 Q&A SESSION PRESENTED BY ACCA from about a week ago:Idle time is caused by a bottleneck…remove / reduce the bottleneck and idle time would be reducedHow can this be proven? Please can you give me an example?Thanks May 30, 2015 at 9:26 am #250463 John MoffatKeymasterTopics: 56Replies: 53820☆☆☆☆☆When there are several processes, then the slowest one is the bottleneck and slows things down for all of the processes. That means that there will be idle time in the other processes. May 30, 2015 at 11:35 am #250508 ChloeMemberTopics: 95Replies: 243☆☆☆Right, thank youAuthorPostsViewing 3 posts - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)The topic ‘Bottlenecks’ is closed to new replies.