HI-HO YO-YO, INC.

“Hi-Ho Yo-Yo, Inc.”

“Hi-Ho Yo-Yo, Inc.”

A simple simulation model is used at Hi-Ho Yo-Yo, Inc. to demonstrate that even though average job flow time is clearly and significantly shorter with SPT it can mask under-utilization of capacity-constrained work stations - bottlenecks - present in the flow. Giving priority to those jobs which fill capacity at a bottleneck significantly improves capacity utilization at the bottleneck and reduces the amount of work which awaits capacity at the conclusion of the work schedule.

Your boss, Anne Carroll, has just returned from the June high level planning meeting with John Cooper, ...