Executive summary
A research pack for production bottleneck investment: the assumptions behind the business case, documented, sourced, scored and frozen before any option is priced.
What is inside
What the pack covers
The asset takes the facts from the baseline diagnostic and walks the team through building an assumption register across demand, capacity and throughput, cost, benefit and implementation, logging every source with its date, strengthening the weakest high-impact numbers with short measurement studies, scoring confidence against behavioral anchors, and freezing the book at an evidence gate that feeds the options appraisal.
- Scope: one production system, one constraint hypothesis, five assumption classes
- Demand, capacity and throughput, cost, benefit and implementation assumptions, each with a source and date
- Where short shop-floor studies replace estimates for the numbers that matter most
- Confidence scoring and the evidence standard a bottleneck business case must meet
- An evidence gate that freezes the assumption book before investment options are priced
- A worked synthetic manufacturer example and a failure case
- Working tools for the register, the source log and the research question backlog