👉 In economics and operations research, a "capacitated" process refers to a system where the inputs are constrained by the availability of resources (in this case, time) and decisions involve scheduling activities with respect to these constraints. This concept is often used in planning and scheduling problems involving resource allocation or production planning. A process that satisfies the constraints associated with the available resources is said to be capacitated. For example, if a factory has only 10 hours of available capacity for production, but