What is the takt time?
On average, the customer has been requesting 360 boards per day. Our circuit board company has one eight-hour shift. There is an unpaid lunch, and two fifteen minutes breaks a day. We take the breaks away from our 480-minute working day to leave 450 effective working minutes. Our takt time is then 450/360 = 1.25 minutes or 75 seconds per item. If we produce faster than this, we will be overproducing. If we produce slower than this, we will not be meeting our customer demand. Using our demand rate of 360 items per day, we see that our first current state map had an inaccurate individual inventory/time calculations, but that the production lead-time was essentially correct. Will we ship directly to the customer, or to a finished goods warehouse? In our company, the customer demand has been very predictable each day. We can get a time series from our production control department that shows the demand over time to reinforce this. Therefore a finished goods supermarket would not normally b
