Capacity planning · The capacity model · Element

The deductions

What reduces theoretical capacity to practical capacity.

The part

What it is

Maintenance, changeover, setup, breaks, quality losses and speed losses. Together these routinely account for a third or more.

Listing them separately shows which are addressable, since changeover time is a process problem while maintenance is a necessity.

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.