Capacity · The buffer · Element
The slack
Unbooked production capacity.
The part
What it is
Distinct from the reactive space, which is for responding to events. This is for absorbing disruption.
A plan booked to a hundred per cent of capacity has no slack and will miss slots in any month where anything goes wrong.
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.
The other elements in the buffer
The reserve
Finished pieces held ready to publish.
LearnThe usage
How often the buffer was needed.
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