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Production bottleneck

Compare serial workstation capacities and identify the limiting step.

Your starting point

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Sample values are filled in. Change them to make this your own.

Keep the header row. Separate values with commas; quote values containing commas.

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RESULT

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FROM INPUT TO ANSWER

Use this tool

  1. Set the minutes available per machine in the same period.
  2. List each serial station, its per-unit cycle time and parallel machine count.
  3. Calculate the limiting station and whole-unit output.
WHAT THE NUMBERS MEAN

Reading your result

Station rows show continuous theoretical capacity. Finished units rounds the smallest station capacity down; line start-up and work-in-progress timing are excluded.

UNDER THE HOOD

How this works

Station capacity = available minutes × parallel machines ÷ minutes per unit.

Use the units shown beside each field. For monetary amounts, use one currency throughout; calculations do not convert currencies. Results normally display up to two decimal places. Nonzero values below 0.01 use up to six significant digits; values below 0.000001 use scientific notation (for example, 1E-7 means 0.0000001). Rankings use unrounded values, so displayed scores can look equal without being tied. CSV downloads retain numeric precision. Monetary rounding uses half-away-from-zero. Inputs or results beyond supported precision are rejected.

BEFORE YOU USE THE RESULT

Assumptions & limits

Continuous capacity model rounded down for finished units. Ignores changeovers, downtime, buffers and staffing conflicts.

CSV inputs support quoted commas, doubled quotation marks and quoted line breaks. Headers are case-sensitive; a maximum of 500 data rows and 200,000 characters applies per table.

Results are planning aids based on the values you enter. Check important decisions and documents before using or sharing them.

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