Situation "Slow process of making toast and applying hard butter to the toast"

What conditions or occurrences are preventing you from achieving the goals?

Why do they exist? What is $($are$)$ their cause$($s$)?$

$->$ use the simplest problem$-$analysis tool that will suffice to show cause$-$and$-$effect down to root cause. From $5$ Whys to $7$ QC tools $($fishbone$)$ to more sophisticated SPC$,$ G Sigma, and other tools as needed.