CTP--New Tools, Old Theories

A useful strategy to think about bottlenecks and how they move is to think about taking "snap shots" of how busy each department (another resource) is during different times of the day. In doing this, we would find minutes, hours or days in which there is work waiting to be done in one area—while someone else has nothing to do in another area. In this snap shot, the platemaking department has nothing to do, while the proofing area has too much work.