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Takt Time: What Is It?
Takt time is the rate of demand as determined by the customer, most often calculated by the available production time divided by actual customer demand.
For example if a work day is 8 hours, and customers buy 16 items a day, then takt time is 1/2 an hour.
Takt time should not be confused with Cycle time, which is the total time it takes for a product to move through a process or value stream including queues and rework.
By David McLachlan
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