Production · The capacity · Element
The buffer
The slack that lets the schedule survive an ordinary month.
The part
What it is
A plan filled to capacity breaks the first time anything happens, and it breaks where the audience can see it.
Buffer is the first thing removed under pressure and the reason the schedule then fails. Naming it as a component is what makes it defensible.
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 capacity
The throughput
How much actually gets out in a normal month.
LearnThe ceiling
What the plan may not exceed.
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