A bottleneck is a point of congestion in a production system that stops or severely slows down the system.
Short-term bottlenecks are temporary and usually occur due to the fact that employees are on vacation or on sick leave.
Long-term bottlenecks are built into the production protocol and are often associated with inefficient equipment or processes.
Bottlenecks, a process that creates bottlenecks, can have a significant impact on the flow of production and can drastically increase production time and cost.
Bottlenecks have a negative impact on practical production capacity, keeping it below the theoretical (ideal) capacity than usual.
Eliminating bottlenecks is the key to improving production efficiency.