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Takt Time in Manufacturing

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If goods are made faster than the customer wants them, the result is to build inventory, which is a form of waste in lean. When setting up a new production line: The cycle time of the bottleneck operation must be at least equal to the takt time. Unusually for lean manufacturing, “takt” is a German, rather than Japanese, word.