Isn't it tempting… Taking on that extra job for a little extra revenue or trimming back on capacity that is sometimes idle…
100% capacity utilization may “seem” like the perfect balancing act between demand and capacity but it comes with some typically underappreciated, often devastating consequences…
The “Kingman Law” is a mathematical relationship between “capacity utilization” of a productive system and the queue time or wait time of jobs to get completed.
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Laurence Gartside
Rowtons Training
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