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Sir I’m afraid I have an issue with the Chapter 5 Bottleneck resource (example 3)
If a machine production capacity is less than the other machines that machine is clearly the bottleneck resource because it has lower capaciy and it will only produce limited number of units for each product. And the other machines will be slowed down due smooth processing of that limited resource machine?
Is that what you meant in your notes?
Given that the product is worked on by all of the machines in turn, the most units that can be produced is the number of units that the slowest machine (the bottleneck) is able to deal with.
If a product is made by worked of several machines (one after the another) then the production will be restricted by the slowest of the machines because it is taking longer and that slowest machine is actually the bottleneck resource.
In example 3 we have labour hour available at 225,000 and each product per metres in hours is given in the table so we need to calculate the production capacity of each product and decide which machine is taking longer and we can see that by looking at their production capacity whichever product is making fewer units will be therefore taking longer time and it is bottleneck resource?
Is that correct?
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