How do you do downtime analysis and find the real bottleneck?
The short answer
Do downtime analysis by capturing every stop with a reason code, ranking losses by total impact (Pareto), and tracing the top few to root cause. The real bottleneck is usually not the most frequent stop but the one with the largest total time or that gates throughput — which only shows when you measure and rank objectively.
The method
- Capture every stop. Reason code and duration for each downtime event.
- Rank by total impact. Pareto the losses — frequency × duration, not just count.
- Find the constraint. Identify which loss actually limits throughput.
- Root-cause the top few. Fix the vital few causes, not the trivial many.
How Praxie fits
Praxie captures downtime with reason codes, ranks losses automatically, and links the top losses to root-cause analysis — so you attack the real bottleneck. Provable on your own line in a free micro-pilot.
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