A health drink company is producing 100 bottles in 800 minutes with a takt-time of 8 minutes. The total available time in a production day is 8,000 minutes. Which action can the company take to improve productivity?

While increasing the available production time could theoretically allow for more output, it does not directly address the inefficiencies in the current production rate. Simply extending the work hours or minutes does not improve the actual productivity of the processes or the utilization of resources, making this option less effective for immediate improvements.

Reducing production output would have the opposite effect of improving productivity. Lowering the number of bottles produced means that resources are underutilized and could lead to higher costs per unit, ultimately decreasing overall efficiency. This action contradicts the goal of increasing productivity.

Increasing the takt-time would slow down the production process, leading to decreased productivity. This action would create longer intervals between each bottle produced, further widening the gap between output and demand, which is counterproductive to achieving efficiency.