Line widget · find the bottleneck

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pizzas
Line capacity
Bottleneck time
Throughput time
one unit, no waiting
24 pizzas take
Capacity per hour of each step

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Get 24 pizzas in under 2 hours with only one extra person or one extra oven.
Make the toppings step the bottleneck.
Which change does nothing for the output per hour? Prove it.

Capacity of a step = 60 minutes ÷ minutes per unit × parallel workers or machines (batch: units per load × 60 ÷ minutes per load). Bottleneck = step with the lowest capacity. Time for an order = throughput time + (order − 1) × bottleneck time. Eigene Darstellung, R. Bartnik 2026.