Process Design, Analysis & Capacity Planning is a structured track of 13 lessons that build a complete, interview-ready understanding of the topic. Work through them in order, then use the quiz and flashcards in each lesson to revise.
What this course covers
- Process Types and Choosing the Right One - Job shop to continuous flow, and what each demands of the organisation.
- Process Mapping and Value Stream Mapping - Mapping the current state so the waste becomes visible and countable.
- Cycle Time, Takt Time & Lead Time Explained - Three timing measures routinely confused, separated with a worked example.
- Finding the Bottleneck and the Theory of Constraints - Locating the true constraint, and why improving elsewhere achieves nothing.
- Little's Law and Reading a Process Mathematically - The relationship between throughput, work in progress and lead time.
- Capacity Measurement, Utilisation & Effective Capacity - Design against effective capacity, and why high utilisation destroys service.
- Line Balancing and Workstation Design - Balancing work across stations to the takt, with the arithmetic.
- Queueing, Waiting Lines & Service Capacity - Why queues form even below full capacity, and how variability drives waiting.
- Layout Design: Process, Product & Cellular - Choosing a layout, and the material movement each one creates.
- Work Measurement, Standard Times & Productivity - Setting standard times fairly, and using them without gaming.
- Debottlenecking a Real Process Step by Step - A constraint removed in sequence, with throughput measured at each step.
- Using AI and Simulation to Test a Process Design - Simulating a redesign before spending capital, and checking the assumptions.
- Applied: Redesigning a Process to Double Throughput - A full redesign with the maths, the capital required and the risks.