When the Deck Oven Becomes the Drum
Use drum-buffer-rope logic to protect a bakery's oven bottleneck during peak production.
decision-trail bottleneck-map score-chips Peak bake Wholesale baguettes are due at 7:15, country loaves are ready, scones are waiting, and the deck oven has become the one resource every promise depends on. The choice is not just which product bakes next. It is whether the bakery protects the system constraint or buries it. Drum-buffer-rope Drum -> buffer -> rope Let the constraint set the pace, keep a controlled buffer before it, and release upstream work only when the constraint can absorb it. Reflex Keep every station producing so nobody looks idle. The oven stays loaded with the right work and queues…
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