If there is a process with a large number of steps, and in the general disorder of life, work arrives at one step randomly, the desire of people to have 100% utilization at each step conflicts with the desire to produce any product at all.
That is, at 100% utilization, partially completed products would stack up in queues and throughput goes to zero.
60% utilization is a better goal, you can do better than that IF you take "random arrival" out of the situation.
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If there is a process with a large number of steps, and in the general disorder of life, work arrives at one step randomly, the desire of people to have 100% utilization at each step conflicts with the desire to produce any product at all.
That is, at 100% utilization, partially completed products would stack up in queues and throughput goes to zero.
60% utilization is a better goal, you can do better than that IF you take "random arrival" out of the situation.