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    Glassy Lenses

    Serrano, Alejandro ; Sabrià, Frederic ; Grandes, Mª Jesús

    English , Spanish

    • Reference: P-1201-E

    • Year: 2021

    • Number of pages: 4

    • Geographic Setting: Francia

    • Publication Date: Jan 28, 2022

    • Source: IESE (España)

    • Type of Document: Case

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    Description

    Glassy Lenses, a manufacturer of lenses for eyeglasses in France, can cherry pick orders from a pool of existing orders on a daily basis, but then bottlenecks may jump from one section to the other, making production planning and execution difficult. Help the plant management select correctly among the various products families so as to maximize profit.

    Learning Objective

    The goal is to show how to identify the bottleneck of a system when more than one products are manufactured and the production mix changes over time. A secondary goal is to illustrate how the optimal decision changes as a function of the objective function defined by the management team.

    Keywords

    bottleneck calculation Capacity analysis

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