Decision category

Production decisions

Capacity, bottleneck, order feasibility, and cycle time decisions.

• Production Capacity Planner Turn cycle time and available time into daily capacity, the takt time demand requires, and the resulting gap.
• Order Feasibility Planner Check whether a new order fits your bottleneck capacity and due date, given backlog and start delay.
• Bottleneck Capacity Analyzer Turn step cycle times and available time into real line capacity, the constraint step, and the gap against demand.
• Demand Growth Capacity Stress Test Compound a demand growth rate against current capacity to find the period, if any, a gap opens.
• Cycle Time vs Takt Line Balance Planner Find which of four line stations is the real bottleneck against takt time, not just the average cycle time.