Ops 571 Week 3 Constraint Essay

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Operations Management OPS/571 Week 3 Assignment: Bottlenecks in the Process In a brief presented in week one of this course, the process of preparing for work was identified as the focal process to be improved upon over the course of the next few weeks. Time was the metric that had been chosen to measure the daily work preparation process and a flowchart was utilized to integrate the data collected over the course of 6 weeks with the chosen metric (time) to show how the chosen process had improved and progressed. This week’s brief will discuss the main bottleneck in the daily work preparation process and will further apply Goldratt’s theory of constraints to identify and overcome process bottlenecks. Discussed in chapter 5; Process Analysis, of the selected text Operations Management for Competitive Advantage, (Chase, Jacobs & Aquilano, 2006) a bottleneck is identified as a limit on the capacity of a process. In regards to the daily work preparation process, that is the focus of this study brief, the bottleneck can be identified as the snooze. The wake-up time is set at 03:00 daily, however, the snooze can vary anywhere from 0 to 25mins, which impacts the rest of the work preparation process and further sets back the ultimate time the residence is vacated and the arrival time at work. Moving on to apply Goldratt’s theory of constraints, which is discussed in chapter 18; Synchronous Manufacturing and Theory of Constraints, ( Chase, Jacobs & Aquilano, 2006), to identify and overcome the bottleneck within the daily work preparation process, it can be genuinely concluded that the constraint can be identified as the time spent snoozing after the initial wake up time of 03:00. One way to exploit this constraint within the process would be to set the wake up time back to compensate for longer snoozing time.

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