Process Analysis

capacity of a resource

1/activity time

bottleneck

stage with the smallest capacity or the longest processing time

process capacity

bottleneck resource capacity

process designed cycle time

1/process capacity

stage designed cycle time

1/stage capacity

designed cycle time

1/process capacity

capacity of n parallel resources

capacity of res 1 + capacity of res 2 + … + capacity of res n

resource utilization

process capacity/resource capacity

idle time of a worker

cycle time - activity of that worker

direct labor cost

total wages / process capacity

flow rate (throughput)

min {Process capacity, Demand rate}

actual cycle time

1 / flow rate

stage utilization

flow rate / stage capacity

process utilization

flow rate / process capacity