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takt time

[′tak ‚tīm]
(industrial engineering)
The rate of customer demand, calculated by dividing the available production time by the quantity the customer requires in that time.
The reciprocal of the production rate.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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After collecting the required data, line balancing techniques are applied, in which the identified sequence of events (SOEs), labor and machine times are simply divided into parts equal to a Takt time, a time/volume relationship used by lean methodology.
Product and component traceability: For Lean Flow, traceability is simply a DHR work task to be performed within takt time. Traceability requires a standard time and calculated resources.
Examination of customer TAT expectations and daily demand for different assays can be translated into a takt time (available work time divided by customer demand), which--in conjunction with measures of process cycle times--indicate where bottlenecks are occurring in the value stream.
Furthermore, establishing a takt time (the average production time allowed for each unit of demand), which is calculated by taking the total operating time available during a period and dividing it by the number of units demanded by the customer during that period, ensures that the pace of production remains in sync with customer demand.
Takt Time Production pace based on Nexus Machines demand.
Production to Pace of demand that is used to determine the TAKT Time required pace of production.
The system cycle time, called takt time, is the production drumbeat for the system.
Departmental Level: Focuses on objectives, reduces activities that add time but little value, measures progress to Takt Time, creates Flow to reduce hand-off breakdowns, implements Pull and Kanban systems and uses Visual Management to identify issues.
Managing this complexity by designing to takt time, implementing new scheduling systems, and synchronizing material and information flows for each assemble-to-order vehicle is the key to success.
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