Bottleneck
a bottleneck (noun) - difficulties that must be overcome before something can operate successfully (places where it is difficult for large amounts of traffic to pass through)
production bottlenecks at the factory
a communications bottleneck
a technological bottleneck
marketing bottlenecks
bottlenecks and blockages galore
congestion compounded by the bottlenecks
stymied by a technological bottleneck
growing bottleneck of senior women lawyers excluded from partnership
a bottleneck market in which there is room for only one major supplier
couldn't get the fire engine through the bottleneck in ten minutes
bottleneck of moving large furniture through a small door
alleviate bottlenecks
measures to correct severe bottlenecks
administrative apparatus to eliminate bottlenecks
operate on an informal basis and focus on the removal of obvious bottlenecks
measures will go at least some way to removing the bottleneck
identify bottlenecks
the bottlenecks in the industry's own programme were identified
major bottlenecks in the transport system
removal of transport bottlenecks
widen roads and remove traffic bottlenecks
promotion bottlenecks
the problem of promotion bottlenecks for middle managers
correct severe bottlenecks in hospital careers
inflationary bottlenecks
the very speed of the upswing helped to push up prices because bottlenecks developed
inflationary bottlenecks are encountered at lower levels of economic activity
caused widespread loss of confidence in the currency, hoarding, and commercial bottlenecks
production and supply bottlenecks
slowed down production at what was already a natural bottleneck
supply was liable to frequent bottlenecks
holding very little in the way of stocks and inventory and relying on components suppliers to supply these just in time for use in production could not operate where
bottlenecks in production developed well before the physical limit was reached
schedules can form the basis for negotiation between departments to attempt to avoid bottlenecks where many assignments are all due in together
preventing the development of bottlenecks in production
a system that could intelligently suggest answers to bottlenecks or problems
labour bottlenecks
upswing in the economy generated bottlenecks and labour market mismatches
government schemes creating severe labour bottlenecks on the farm
when bottlenecks arose in the benefit delivery system
network bottlenecks
have a network bottleneck with many many users
information bottlenecks
in computer systems information bottlenecks at crucial times
greatly improved network performance and removed the bottleneck
new software should eliminate performance bottlenecks which have restricted performance
Example sentences:
* The solution the unions and workforce prefer is increased investment to overcome the numerous production bottlenecks at the factory.
* These measures will go at least some way to removing the bottleneck.
* Mistakes and botched work thus slowed down production at what was already a natural bottleneck.
* Both cases are examples of abuse of a dominant position in a bottleneck market in which there is room for only one major supplier.
* After 20 years of technical development designers who use computer graphics to produce animated films are still stymied by a technological bottleneck.
* The growing bottleneck of senior women lawyers excluded from partnership means the issue of discrimination is beginning to bite.
* So we have a network bottleneck with many many users.
* So we've greatly improved network performance and removed the bottleneck of the, of the network.
* The measures were meant to correct the severe bottlenecks in hospital careers by balancing the number of career registrar and senior registrar posts with realistic projections of how many consultant posts would exist.
* Now er there are some areas based in my area where you couldn't get the fire engine through the bottleneck in ten minutes erm, all this has got to be put in its relative priority.
* It was a risky game: played too often, it caused widespread loss of confidence in the currency, hoarding, and commercial bottlenecks.
* Just in time inventory practices are not, therefore, just a way of reducing stock, but implies a commitment to total waste avoidance, removal of bottlenecks and total quality control, i.e. getting the product out as soon as possible and right first time.
* These cost-reduction circles may operate on an informal basis and focus on the removal of obvious bottlenecks rather than looking where the company's cost system directs, but, as business becomes more and more competitive, it may be necessary to track cost-reduction progress.
* In the hotel, once again we've gotta get all these, we've gotta things into a room which is obvious, but you've gotta get the things we're moving up through the lift and you've got this bottleneck.
* Consumer goods worst affected by production and supply bottlenecks included car tyres, high-tension electrical switches, spare parts for agricultural machinery and telecommunications equipment.
* Such schedules can form the basis for negotiation between departments to attempt to avoid bottlenecks where many assignments are all due in together.
* Holding very little in the way of stocks and inventory and relying on components suppliers to supply these just in time for use in production could not operate where supply was liable to frequent bottlenecks, disruption or downright guileful dispositions to milk positions of strategic contingency for what they are worth.
* This, in turn, reduces the ability of companies to supply any later upturn in demand, so inflationary bottlenecks are encountered at lower levels of economic activity.
* We have created an administrative apparatus to eliminate incompetence, lethargy and bottlenecks.
* There are major bottlenecks in the transport system, mainly because of foreign exchange problems.
* The speed of the upswing in the economy last year generated bottlenecks and labour market mismatches.
* The very speed of the upswing helped to push up prices because bottlenecks developed, the prices of those goods rose and feed-through effects followed.
* New ventures are one way to solve the problem of promotion bottlenecks for middle managers whose prospects are constrained by slower rates of industrial growth.
* There was some congestion along the coast, compounded by the bottlenecks at Connah's Quay, where Down fast and slow lines converged as far as Muspratt's Sidings, and again at Llandulas.
* The European parliament, Community of European Railways and Round Table of European Industrialists are all in favour of a special European infrastructure fund for rail development and the removal of transport bottlenecks at, for example, the English Channel and the Straits of Messina.
* In Britain road improvement schemes to widen roads and remove traffic bottlenecks were under way by the 1930's in order to allow greater volumes and speeds of traffic.
* These, or a hundred other weaknesses or incompatibilities in computer systems, create information bottlenecks at crucial times.
* In order to alleviate bottlenecks in the supply of skilled labour at that time, each enterprise or factory assumed the responsibility for training recruits for the emerging mass-production industries.
* First, black workers were recruited for precisely those jobs, usually poorly paid and involving unpleasant working conditions, which the indigenous white working class was able to reject at the time of economic expansion, thus preventing the development of bottlenecks in production and permitting higher levels of capital accumulation.
* The main requirement, says Candle was for a system that could intelligently suggest answers to bottlenecks or problems, and if required implement the necessary changes.
* Yet the bottlenecks in the industry's own programme were identified, one by one, and their control over the manufacturers was gradually increased.
* The new software should eliminate performance bottlenecks which have restricted performance on Sun Sparcsystems.
* In practice, however, bottlenecks in production are likely to develop well before this physical limit is reached, perhaps because of equipment and labour shortages in specific industries.
* Previously when bottlenecks arose in the benefit delivery system regional or local decisions had to be made that might affect implementation, now there is a central directorate which is likely to be involved in the examination of policy feasibility and which plays an important part in determining how policy is implemented.
* You can still hear the resentment engendered in the villages by these schemes because of the way they were so clearly causing poverty and creating severe labour bottlenecks on the farm.
* Combine many buses (moving and parked) with all the above and we have a chaotic, dangerous route for vehicles, not to mention vulnerable pedestrians, and bottlenecks and blockages galore.
* But police here say they've had growing problems in regulating the tide and have even ordered groups of refugees to return to the border post to allow time to clear bottlenecks further down the five hundred mile route to the Red Sea port of Aqaba.
* Considerations of possible water shortage may also have partly influenced the Grand Union into adopting the narrow seven foot gauge for both the Foxton and Watford lock systems, thus constituting a permanent bottleneck for through traffic.
* The fertilized egg is a narrow bottleneck which, during embryonic development, widens out into the trillions of cells of an adult elephant.
* The life cycle of the broad and bulky elephant both begins and ends with a narrow bottleneck.
* Bottle-wrack reproduces by squeezing itself, every generation, through a single-celled bottleneck.
* Indeed I suspect that the essential, defining feature of an individual organism is that it is a unit that begins and ends with a single-celled bottleneck.
* And the more that living material is boxed into discrete survival machines, the more will the cells of those survival machines concentrate their efforts on that special class of cells that are destined to ferry their shared genes through the bottleneck into the next generation.
* Devon has a greater mileage of roads than any other English county, and all holiday-makers travelling to the resorts of Devon and Cornwall, before the building of the Honiton by-pass, knew the town as a frightful bottleneck.
* The reasons for the new tunnel were that the old one was a terrible bottleneck, and that it was unsafe.
* It has in its time been threatened with demolition as a bottleneck, but has been widened and is still happily intact.
* Like most of the peripheral regions Wales and the South West are acutely aware of the transport bottleneck represented by the need to cross London from the Channel Tunnel rail terminals to other major railway stations.
* Smith therefore felt that the manufacturers' allocations should be cut back to a more realistic level than the BEA's plant-ordering programme, while he allocated more steel for the foundation and building work on power station sites which was the bottleneck.
* The scheme, aimed at removing the traffic bottleneck in the village of Rhuddlan, will include a new crossing over the River Clwyd.
* There are substantial bottlenecks in the primary school system, at first grade in urban schools (causing large numbers of children to start school late), and at fifth grade in rural schools.
* The problem with this sort of provision is that the cycle lanes have to be carried across junctions, which represent both bottlenecks and accident black spots on the network.
* When employees fail to turn up for work today, it can often cause huge management headaches, particularly in labour intensive industries where absence of employees may require reallocation of production line work and potential bottlenecks in the system.
* Auspex says the NS 6000 functional multiprocessing computer architecture eliminates input-output bottlenecks by separating network, file and disk management functions usually performed by the host CPU.
* The software tracks system flow, ISR nestings, task switching and identifies bottlenecks.
* I'm totally left-handed, but eventually I learned the bottleneck style used by blues singers. (??)
