bottleneck
Definition
Department, facility, machine, or resource already working at its full capacity and which, therefore, cannot handle any additional demand placed on it. Also called critical resource, a bottleneck limits the throughput of associated resources.
bottleneck is in the Disaster Planning & Risk Management, Industries, Manufacturing, & Technology and Planning & Scheduling subjects.
bottleneck appears in the definitions of the following terms: constraint, optimized production technology (OPT), critical resource, level load, unscheduled overtime and theory of constraints (TOC)
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