RE: Re: SIP is "just another Six Sigma measure"?

Suzuki "The New Manufacturing Challenge", p 131.
  * Cycle time: Time between the completion of the last product and the
completion of the next product
  * Production lead time: Time between beginning of production and
completion of production for a single product

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On 2003.01.21, Kent Beck <[email protected]> wrote:
> As I understand it, the manufacturing jargon for what SIP measures is
> "production lead time". Cycle time is the pace at which finished goods
> leave the line. This won't make a big difference unless we're talking
to
> real manufacturing people.

That's odd.  My understanding of "cycle time" was that it's the time it
takes for a single product to be created.  In software development
jargon, I'd measure "cycle time" as the elapsed time from when a
customer requests a feature until the time they receive it.

Maybe I misunderstood or misread your writings on SIP, but I thought
that SIP was this exact same measure of elapsed time.  Was I mistaken?

-- Dossy

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Dossy Shiobara                       mail: [email protected] 
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    folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)


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