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The process analytics simulation that we started in class was an interesting and practical demonstration and actual application of process flow analysis. The first problem which we performed in small groups within the class, was laid out very simply as a set of sequential processes, each with individual characteristics, that are ordered in pre-determined process that when complete, produces one production unit. The initial concepts demonstrated were those of cycle time, throughput, capacity, utilization and bottleneck. Cycle time reflects the average time it takes for units to complete the process once the process gets running. (Leonard, 2007, p. 10). Generally the cycle time will be determined by the longest process in a sequential flow. Throughput is the amount of time it takes to complete the first unit. …show more content…

(Leonard, 2007, p. 11) Utilization is the mathematical calculation of process throughput over process capacity with the average of the individual process utilization rates being the overall utilization rate. (Leonard, 2007, p. 18) . The utilization rate was the hardest for the group to grasp until they effectively understood that the bottleneck, the process that limits the overall capacity of the system being measured (Leonard, 2007, p. 18), is always the process that is running at 100% utilization, and all other processes utilization is calculated on the basis of this bottleneck process. The remainder of problem 1 in the simulation was emphasizing the importance identifying the bottleneck and calculating the effects of changing the process when you change the bottleneck and when you change other factors. If you affect the bottleneck than you effect process. If the bottleneck remains unchanged than the overall efficiency of the process does not

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