Bryan Inc.produces a specialty top-quality juice machine.The product,the JM50,requires four processes to be completed.Specifically,these processes are exterior construction,pulp filter insertion,painting,and packaging.Each process is performed at separate workstations with different completion rates:
Exterior construction can manufacture 100,000 juicer exteriors per day.
Pulp filter insertion can install 25,000 filters every 6 hours.
Painting can decorate 3,000 juicers every half hour.
Packaging can package 5,000 juicers per hour.
The plant operates 24/7,24 hours a day every day of the week.
What cost management technique does this case illustrate?

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This case illustrates the Theory of Constraints (TOC), which is a cost management technique used to identify the bottleneck in a production process and optimize it to increase overall throughput. In this case, the bottleneck is the slowest process, which is pulp filter insertion that can only install 25,000 filters every 6 hours. By identifying and optimizing this bottleneck, the overall production throughput can be increased.

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