The Manufacturing Throughput and Bottleneck Management Training Course offered by Imperial Corporate Training Institute is a specialised manufacturing training course designed to help professionals understand, analyse, and systematically improve production flow across manufacturing operations. This course focuses on identifying process limitations that restrict output and applying structured techniques to enhance throughput without compromising quality or increasing unnecessary costs. By integrating principles of bottleneck analysis, capacity planning, and flow optimisation, participants gain a practical understanding of how manufacturing systems behave under real operational constraints.
Throughout this training, learners explore how capacity constraints impact operational performance and how even a single bottleneck can affect the productivity of an entire production system. The course combines analytical frameworks with real-world manufacturing scenarios to demonstrate how throughput can be increased by managing constraints rather than adding resources blindly. Participants will develop the ability to measure, prioritise, and resolve bottlenecks in complex manufacturing environments, enabling sustainable productivity improvement and better decision-making at both operational and strategic levels.
Objectives
By the end of this Manufacturing Throughput and Bottleneck Management Training Course, participants will be able to:
- Understand the relationship between throughput, work-in-process, and lead time in manufacturing systems
- Conduct effective bottleneck analysis to identify process constraints that limit output
- Evaluate capacity constraints and their impact on production flow and delivery performance
- Apply flow optimisation techniques to balance workloads and stabilise manufacturing operations
- Improve productivity improvement initiatives using data-driven throughput metrics
- Measure and enhance operational performance using constraint-based performance indicators
- Develop practical strategies for managing temporary and permanent bottlenecks
- Align throughput improvement efforts with overall manufacturing objectives
- Reduce waiting times, idle capacity, and unnecessary inventory accumulation
- Support continuous improvement programmes with structured constraint management tools
Target Audience
This manufacturing training course is suitable for professionals involved in production planning, operations management, and process improvement, including:
- Manufacturing managers and production managers
- Operations and plant supervisors
- Industrial and manufacturing engineers
- Continuous improvement and Lean practitioners
- Production planners and schedulers
- Quality and process improvement specialists
- Supply chain and operations professionals
- Maintenance and reliability managers
- Technical leads involved in shop-floor optimisation
- Professionals responsible for improving operational performance in manufacturing environments