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Key Takeaways:
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The Concept: A bottleneck is the single process step that limits the output of the entire factory. An hour lost at the bottleneck is an hour lost for the whole business.
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The Symptom: Look for the "Piles." High Work-In-Progress (WIP) inventory sits before the bottleneck; machines sit idle after it.
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The Solution: You cannot fix a bottleneck just by working harder. You need Data (OEE) to find it and Strategic Maintenance to keep it running.
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The Fabrico Fit: Use OEE data to pinpoint the constraint, then prioritize maintenance on that specific asset to maximize total throughput.
