You Have Run a Capacity Resource Profile on Your Shop

question 49

Essay

You have run a capacity resource profile on your shop.Products have been routed sequentially through resources A,B,C &C.A rope (communication)should be directed back to the start of the process,resource A to prevent inventory from building up.Depending upon the situation,a second rope can extend from the finished goods inventory location (another buffer)to resource C as described in the text.C.A small buffer inventory should be held between resource B and resource D.The capacity resource profile tells you that recourse A is scheduled at 95 percent of capacity,recourse B at 80% of capacity,recourse C at 130% of capacity and recourse D at 100% of capacity.Assuming that the data we used to calculate the capacity resource profile was reasonably accurate,how would you employ the "drum,buffer,rope" thinking?
This concept is discussed in the text on pages 690-693.The drum or control of the process is at the bottleneck,resource

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