Business Bottlenecks

Once a constraint is broken, the process restarts because a new constraint will emerge elsewhere in the system. Production delays, limited resources, and outdated procedures slow down entire operations, and waiting for these to self-resolve wastes time and momentum. Without a method for identifying constraints, businesses suffer from several compounding problems including unresolved bottlenecks. A constraint can be a slow machine, a specific department, a procedural bottleneck, or any resource operating below the throughput needed by the rest of the system.