Data-analytic approach to identifying and prioritizing delay-contributing manufacturing jobs

A computer-implemented method (600) of identifying delay causing product assembly jobs in a factory that produces multiple products, the method comprising:

• acquiring (602), by at least one electronic processor, delay times (802) for each of a plurality of jobs performed for assembly of each of a plurality of products at the factory;
• ranking (603), by at least one electronic processor, the jobs according to a number of products affected by delay times, whereby a ranked jobs list is produced;
• adjusting (604), by at least one electronic processor, at least one of a delay threshold, a job rank threshold, or a number of products threshold until a plot (302, 304), of amount of products affected by a delay exceeding the delay threshold as a dependent variable, versus ranked jobs of the ranked jobs list as an independent variable, exceeds the number of products threshold at the job rank threshold;
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• outputting (606), by at least one electronic processor, an initial segment of the ranked jobs list up to the job rank threshold.