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  2. Bottleneck (production) - Wikipedia

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    In production and project management, a bottleneck is a process in a chain of processes, such that its limited capacity reduces the capacity of the whole chain. The result of having a bottleneck are stalls in production, supply overstock, pressure from customers, and low employee morale. [1] There are both short and long-term bottlenecks.

  3. Glossary of economics - Wikipedia

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    Also called resource cost advantage. The ability of a party (whether an individual, firm, or country) to produce a greater quantity of a good, product, or service than competitors using the same amount of resources. absorption The total demand for all final marketed goods and services by all economic agents resident in an economy, regardless of the origin of the goods and services themselves ...

  4. Economics terminology that differs from common usage

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    Economists commonly use the term recession to mean either a period of two successive calendar quarters each having negative growth [clarification needed] of real gross domestic product [1] [2] [3] —that is, of the total amount of goods and services produced within a country—or that provided by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER): "...a significant decline in economic activity ...

  5. Bottleneck - Wikipedia

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    Bottleneck (engineering), where the performance of an entire system is limited by a single component; Bottleneck (network), in a communication network; Bottleneck (production), where one process reduces capacity of the whole chain; Bottleneck (software), in software engineering; Interconnect bottleneck, limits on integrated circuit performance

  6. Economic graph - Wikipedia

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    Economic graphs are presented only in the first quadrant of the Cartesian plane when the variables conceptually can only take on non-negative values (such as the quantity of a product that is produced). Even though the axes refer to numerical variables, specific values are often not introduced if a conceptual point is being made that would ...

  7. Theory of Constraints in streamline manufacturing - Wikipedia

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    In streamline manufacturing, the bottleneck is the station of a production line where greatest limiting factor lies. It is generally the station with the greatest amount of work in process at the work station. Bottlenecks often results in slow production times, surplus of raw material and low employee morale.

  8. Shrinkflation - Wikipedia

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    The 4oz bottle retails at $1.70/oz and the 8 oz bottle retails at $1.16/oz. [citation needed] In 2023, researchers conducted a study [ 32 ] on products known to have shrunk in size but not in price. They found that the average reduction percentage of the product sizes was 11.84%, which the researchers then applied to various other products to ...

  9. Production (economics) - Wikipedia

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    In an economic market, production input and output prices are assumed to be set from external factors as the producer is the price taker. Hence, pricing is an important element in the real-world application of production economics. Should the pricing be too high, the production of the product is simply unviable.