Process design · The time analysis · Element
The processing time
Time when the work is actively being worked on.
The part
What it is
Measured per step and summed, this is usually a fraction of the total that people find hard to believe.
It is also the number most improvement effort targets, which is why so much improvement effort produces so little.
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.
Variability
How much the time varies, which affects queues more than the average does.
Measure shared type