Examples of finding the bottleneck:
Example #1:
Let’s say i playing a team shooter game and there’s only two targets in front of me and my teammate. For simplicity, no one moves and we all just shoot our weapons that do the same dps. One enemy has 300 hp and his teammate has 250 hp.
Is the bottleneck the enemy with the least hp? Let’s’ assume they don’t shoot back and when one enemy dies it’s over for the enemy team. I would say yeah cuz the 250 hp target would go down first if my team focuses him. He’s the weakest link
Example #2:
Goal: Get a drink from my fridge and bring it back to my room.
System: Get up from my chair, go down stairs, grab bottle water from fridge, and go back up stairs and open drink.
Table of parts of the system:
| Steps for getting a drink | Time of process | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Get up from chair | ~2 seconds | ||
| Go down stairs | ~10 seconds | ||
| grab drink from fridge | ~3 seconds | ||
| Go back up stairs | ~10 seconds | ||
| Open drink | ~2 seconds |
I would say the bottleneck is me walking around to get the drink. That’s the slowest part of the system that everything has to wait on. To improve the bottleneck maybe I can get a minifridge in my room to get my drinks. I don’t know what step that is for focusing steps. I would say it’s step 4 cuz im increasing the capacity of retrieving a drink by gettin it close to me idk.