Re: SIP is not Takt Time

"Bill Wake <[email protected]>" <[email protected]> Sun, 09 Feb 2003 21:30:57 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.software-in-process
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Just to kick in some more vocabulary conventions - 

Waiting time in system = waiting time in queue plus service time

(These definitions are from Hillier & Lieberman, Introduction to 
Operations Research.) Their setup is a queue feeding a service 
facility.

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Reinertsen (Managing the Design Factory) - also talking from a 
queueing theory viewpoint - uses the terms "time in the 
system", "queue time", and "service time" for the same concepts.

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Another definition:
  Cycle time - time between the completion of the last product and 
completion of the next product. 
  Production lead time - time between beginning of production and 
completion of production

This is from Suzaki, The New Manufacturing Challenge, p. 131. He 
shows an assembly line, with cars in various states of completeness. 
He shows cycle time as the gap between two cars, and production lead 
time as the time from initiation to completion of a car.

(I don't think we need new terms for most of this stuff, let's just 
use an existing set where we can.)
--Bill Wake





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