Mark bottleneck equipment

The bottleneck equipment is the piece of equipment or the set of parallel equipment in the line that have the lowest expected production rate, and thus limit the rate at which the entire line can produce items.

Note the following about bottleneck equipment:

• At least one piece of equipment in the line must be marked as the line’s bottleneck equipment.

• Only one piece of equipment in a path through the line can be marked as a bottleneck.

• Only equipment that has OEE calculations enabled can be marked as a bottleneck.

To mark a piece of equipment as a bottleneck

• Hover on or tap and hold the top right corner of the equipment card to display the More actions menu and select Bottleneck.

  

  The bottleneck icon appears on the equipment card.

  

To remove the bottleneck mark from a piece of equipment

• On the equipment card's More actions menu, select Bottleneck to clear its selection.

  The bottleneck icon is removed from the equipment card.