Determining Bottlenecks Manually or Automatically

The bottleneck entity can be determined in the following ways:

• Manually, by specifying a specific entity as the bottleneck entity when configuring the line. In this case, the specified entity is always used to set the line's performance amount. Note that, if there is more than one entity at the same line position as the manually-designated entity, the performance amount comes from all of the entities at that line position. See Manually Designating the Bottleneck Entity.

• Automatically, by not specifying a specific entity as the bottleneck entity when configuring the line, but by specifying which entities can be the bottleneck. In this case, the bottleneck entity will be determined by the system’s evaluation of entity performance rates for the entities that have been designated as "Can be a bottleneck." See Configuring the Automatic Determination of Bottleneck Entities.