When a firm has a bottleneck machine, a good way to manage the bottleneck is to make sure that prior machines produce more units for the bottleneck machine to increase its throughput.

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Increasing the input to a bottleneck machine without addressing its capacity will lead to increased work-in-progress inventory and inefficiencies, not increased throughput.

When a Firm Has a Bottleneck Machine, a Good Way