The rules of constraint-bottleneck management

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Choose one of the rules of constraint/bottleneck management listed below (as demonstrated in the storyline of The Goal) and briefly discuss the concept as related to the diagram of the layout of a dentist’s office shown on the diagram here.

A) Do not balance capacity, balance the flow.

B) An hour lost at a bottleneck is an hour lost for the entire system.

C) Bottlenecks govern throughput and inventory in the system.

Identify Choice ____

Hint: First identify the bottleneck in a dentist’s office…..then relate the process of a visit to the dentist to the storyline of The Goal in the context of your choice.

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