Production · The constraint · Element
The queues
How long work waits at each step.
The part
What it is
Measured as the time between arriving at a step and leaving it, not as the time somebody spent on it. The gap between those two is the whole finding.
A week of measurement is usually enough. The pattern is rarely subtle.
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 constraint
The approvers
Who has to say yes, and how many of them.
LearnThe fix
What is being changed at the constraint.
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