Managing Bottlenecks
Completion requirements
Read this article. It details a bottleneck analysis and proposes a bottleneck management process. From the reading, can you describe why bottlenecks occur in a production process?
Methodology
This section describes the approach we used to address the problem of poor bottleneck management. The following steps were proposed and followed:
- Conduct time studies and establish standard times
- Develop the simulation model
- Verify and validate the simulation model
- Quantitatively analyse the mixed model assembly lines
- Conduct bottleneck analysis
- Make decisions to optimise bottleneck management