Calculate Takt Time in Production Process
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Knowing Takt time helps you to estimate your service delivery process and process/software outcome. It can help you achieve a consistent, continuous flow of production, eliminate the waste of overproduction by producing to actual customer demands, and develop standardized work instructions (thus promoting quality and efficiency). More importantly, Takt time enables you to set real time targets for production that show the staff exactly where to focus their output efforts. To calculate Takt time, simply divide your available time by the rate of customer demand.
Steps
- Calculate your demand .i.e what does your end user or customer typically want every day/week/month
- Calculate your available time (excluding your breaks,meeting times)
- Calculate your Takt time ( Available time/ Demand)
- Compare your cycle time against Takt time using any chart(recommended Bar chart)
- Draw a value stream mapping and there you can provide the Takt time at each activity step.
Helpful Information
- Takt time is the pace of production (E.g in Manufacturing one piece every minute) that aligns production with customer demand
- In plain English, it is how fast you need to manufacture product in order to fill your customer demand
- Takt time calculation=Available time / customer demand. For example if customer requires 100 bulbs a day, the Takt time the Takt time is 8 hrs /100
- 8 hrs is the working time in your 9 hours working day (so you need to exclude your breaks, meetings etc) to mention the available time(numerator)
- This means a bulb to be completed every 4.8 minutes
Tips
- Producing faster than Takt time results "overproduction" - The most fundamental waste
- Producing slower than Takt time results in bottlenecks.."waiting"
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