A process in any part of the enterprise (office, production, sales, etc.) that limits the throughput of the whole process.
An activity within an organisation which has a lower capacity than preceding or subsequent activities, thereby limiting throughput. Bottlenecks are often the cause of a build-up of work-in-progress and idle time.
A condition that occurs when product demand exceeds production capacity.
a part of the system which has reached its maximum throughput
a resource or process that restricts the flow of Throughput because its capacity is less than the demand placed upon it
a type of delay where a process step has less capacity at its input than is demanded
A hardware or software component that can limit the performance of a device, subsystem (such as an adapter), or a network. For example, if an adapter has hardware that can forward 14,000 packets per second, and software that can process 4000 packets per second, the packet throughput is limited to 4000 packets per second, and the software is the bottleneck.
Any resource with capacity equal to or less than the demand placed upon it.
An area or workstation in a manufacturing environment that limits throughput of the entire process.
Occurs when demand for a particular resource is beyond the capacity of that resource and this adversely affects other resources. For example, a system has a disk bottleneck if it is unable to use all of its CPU power because processes are blocked waiting for disk access.
The production resource that limits the capacity of the overall process. This is usually the production equipment at the step with the lowest overall capacity (i.e. the longest cycle time). In some situations, the bottleneck resources may be labor available at a particular step or steps.
caused when the flow of electricity is greater than the system capacity between two connected grids. Bottlenecks can lead to an area becoming isolated. In an exchange, this can cause attendant price imbalances between the area price and system price.
A constraint, obstacle or planned control that limits throughput or the utilization of capacity.
Any resource whose capacity is equal to, or less than the demand placed on it.
1) Capacity constraint that may limit traffic carried on the network during peak load conditions. 2) In the US, part of the local loop which is monopolized is known as a bottleneck, because only one carrier provides the service. Thus it is a regulatory term and affects how prices are regulated.
A portion of a system or network that is slower than the rest of the data path, either because of its throughput speed or because of multiple data streams converging at that point.
A system resource that is being pushed near to its capacity and is causing a performance degradation.
A facility, function, department, or resource whose capacity is less than the demand placed upon it. For example, a bottleneck machine or work center exists where jobs are processed at a slower rate than they are demanded.