If you identify and correct the bottlenecks that are slowing down your production, you can improve your efficiency. Efficient operations have better bottom-line results. In manufacturing (yes the production of meat products is considered a manufacturing operation) there is always one part of the operation that is the slowest, and it may change as the production line adapts.
What you are looking for are places in your process flow where product stays in one place and continuously slows down the whole line. The Theory of Constants or TOC, was first presented in the 1984 book,The Goal, by Eliyahu M. Goldbratt and Jeff Cox. Bottlenecks can be the result of the way employees complete their task and/or the equipment in the production line.