What Is a Bottleneck

question 43

Multiple Choice

What is a bottleneck?

• A)A narrow area in the plant layout often causing the production process to slow due to the inability of production workers to move the product from station to station.
• B)A manufacturing strategy used to reduce production cost by eliminating waste of inventory.
• C)The point in the manufacturing process where production exceeds demand.
• D)The point in the manufacturing process where total variable costs and total fixed costs equals total revenues.

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