Integrating innovation into planning: identifying and resolving bottlenecks

The introduction of an innovation can have far-reaching effects on a production unit's planning and capacity management methods; in particular, it can change the location of the bottleneck. How do you manage your capacity to serve customers during the innovation's deployment phase, and then during its ongoing operation?

In this fact sheet, we present methods for identifying the bottleneck(s) during these two phases, and the action levers for mitigating or eliminating them. These methods not only explore the visible part of the iceberg, consisting of changes in unit times, but also take into account notions of quality, storage, dimensional changes and so on.