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| An activity or resource that limits or constrains the output of a process |
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| The limit on the amount of output per period of time that a process can generate or store given a level of inputs and resources available |
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| The time that it takes to process one until at an operation in the overall process |
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| An unintentional stoppage of the flow of work |
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| Occur when the cost per unit increases as an operation's size increases |
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| As production volumes increase with addition of capacity, the unit cost to produce a product decreases to an optimal level |
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| The level of capacity or output that the process can be expected to produce under normal conditions |
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| The time it takes one unit to get through a process |
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| An activity that checks or verifies the results of another activity |
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| A short-term approach to enhancing efficiency that focuses on improving an existing process or an activity within a process |
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| A key premise of process thinking: 15% of operational problems are the result of human errors; the other 85% are due to systemic process errors |
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| As the production volume doubles, the labor hours required decrease by a constant proportion |
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| An empirically proven relationship that exists between flow time, inventory, and throughput |
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| The highest level of output that a process can achieve under ideal conditions in the short term |
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| A measure, a standard, and a consequence that work together to close the gap between what is valued by the customer and what is intended by the organization |
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| An activity that changes an input |
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| A process where there are two or more resources doing the same task simultaneously |
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| A system of structured activities that use resources to change inputs into valuable outputs |
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| The specific types of outputs and levels of performance that a process can generate |
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| A way of viewing activities in an organization as processes rather than as departments or functions |
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| serial/sequential structure |
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| A process structure where the activities occur one after the other in sequence |
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| storage (inventory/store) |
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| An activity that intentionally stops flow of work items and places them under formal control |
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| The overall mgmt system that strives to improve system performance by identifying, focusing on, and managing constraints |
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| An activity that moves an input from one place to another without changing any of its other characteristics |
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| The percent of a process capacity that is actually used |
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| the amount of time that an item spends waiting |
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| The percentage of units successfully produced as a percentage of inputs |
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