Question

A non bottleneck worker currently has an idle time of 20 seconds per unit. Because of the large demand, the company improves the process by adding more capacity to the bottleneck. How does this impact the idle time of the worker?
1. The idle time would decrease.
2. The idle time would stay the same.
3. The idle time would increase.
4. Cannot determine from the given information.

Answer 1

Answer:The idle time would decrease

Explanation:Idle time refers to the time when employees are not doing any particular work but they are still paid for that time in simple terms it refers to an unproductive time of employees. This may be due to things beyond employees control like working with a slow machine may require that the people at the end product must weight for quite some time to have the product reach their side.

What Is a Bottleneck?

A bottleneck refers to congestion that result from being overloaded by so much work , when the work arrives too quickly such than that the production process can't handle it; this result to delays and higher production cost so increasing the capacity of the bottle neck will reduce the waiting time for the non bottle neck workers because this will increase the efficiency of production.