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lead time
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lead time
1. Manufacturing the time between the design of a product and its production
2. Commerce the time from the placing of an order to the delivery of the goods

lead time [′lēd ‚tīm]
(industrial engineering)
The time allowed or required to initiate and develop a piece of equipment that must be ready for use at a given time.


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Its proprietary "quick tooling" software reportedly converts mold designs rapidly into machining code to shorten lead times.
produces fast turnaround prototypes and low production castings, and one of the tools that allows ICT to achieve lower lead times is Delcam's CADCAM software.
Venue Demand Outpaces Supply I Increasing Lead Times
 
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