Sentence examples for bottleneck stages from inspiring English sources

In addition, plant capacity and bottleneck stages are generally not known ahead of time since they depend upon the product mixture.

The purpose of duplication is to balance the capacity of stages, increase the overall shop floor capacity, reduce, if not eliminate, the impact of bottleneck stages and so on.

The effective population sizes of the domesticated silkworm population at the modern and bottleneck stages are 73,196 (95% confidence interval (CI): 10,270 – 549,065) and 7,669 955% CI: 1,390 – 63,205), respectively.

The upstream stages are the stages ahead of the bottleneck stage and the downstream stages are the stages behind the bottleneck stage.

The heuristics first develop an indicator to identify a bottleneck stage in the flow line, and then separate the flow line into the upstream stages, the bottleneck stage, and the downstream stages.

Specifically, a method has been proposed to estimate the processing time in a bottleneck stage with multiple tanks.

A new approach is developed to find the arrival times of the jobs at the bottleneck stage.

A common observation in industry is that multistage processing structures usually present a bottleneck stage (BS) controlling the plant output level.

Using the new approach, the bottleneck-based heuristics develop two decision rules to iteratively schedule the jobs at the bottleneck stage, the upstream stages, and the downstream stages.

Operation manager must focus on keeping the bottleneck stage fully utilized and forcing the other stages to produce in synch with the bottleneck.

This paper considers the flexible flow line problem with unrelated parallel machines at each stage and with a bottleneck stage on the line.