A manufacturing operation has been arranged into a batch flow process whereby production of the product transpires in batches or lots. Assume the batch operation is near full capacity and the capacity utilization is high such that there are high inventories $($because production jobs wait in the queue to be processed$)$ resulting in considerable inventory, loss of efficiency, and production scheduling problems.

The phenomenon described may be refereed to as:

Select one:

a$.$ flux capacity

b$.$ batched ripple

c$.$ engineering flux

d$.$ jumbled flow

e$.$ engineering backfire