Question

Nonbottleneck management principles differ from bottleneck management principles because according to nonbottleneck management principles, _____. a. large order sizes should be used to minimize setup time and maximize resource utilization b. an hour lost at a nonbottleneck resource is an hour lost for the entire process or factory output c. the input should always exceed the capacity d. idle time is acceptable if there is no work to do

Answer 1

D) idle time is acceptable if there is no work to do

Step-by-step explanation:

A bottleneck happens when a production process is saturated with inflows from work in progress units from previous processes. The process cannot handle them all and process them so queues start to form. Bottlenecks slow down total production, reducing efficiency and productivity.

Idle time is defined as time spent waiting, i.e. some production process will be halted until enough WIP units arrive.