Capacity planning · The capacity decision · Element
The options
How capacity would be added, with cost and lead time for each.
The part
What it is
Overtime, an additional shift, outsourcing, and capital investment differ by an order of magnitude in both cost and lead time.
Having these costed in advance is what makes the trigger actionable rather than the start of a six-month evaluation.
The smallest level
The attributes it carries
Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.