A third way to find more capacity in the system after identifying the bottleneck is tominimize downtime at the bottleneck specifically. Although this option does not actuallychange the efficiency of the bottleneck, creating more time for the bottleneck to runcompared to the other machines will improve the overall capacity of the system. At timeswhere the other machines or part of the production process are idle, allowing thebottleneck to continue working will help capacity. This may require changing rules onwork times or overtime but it can be an effective way to increase capacity in regards tothe bottleneck