Flashback to late 2000 when Sony is not producing PlayStation 2 consoles fast enough to keep up with demand. In a sense, they are quite process constrained by manufacturing. Suppose that you visit the plant and take numerous measurements. You find that the bottleneck resource unit (machine A) has a capacity of 400 consoles per shift. However, in the sequential assembly line, the resource unit performing the step right before the bottleneck (machine B) has a capacity of 800 consoles per shift. Even though machine B has a higher capacity than machine A, a good rule of thumb is to keep machine B's utilization at 80%.

(a) True

(b) False

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