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Takt time

Meaning in industrial engineering & manufacturing, with examples

nounCore term

In industrial engineering & manufacturing, takt time means: The pace at which you must finish one product to meet customer demand: the available working time divided by the number of units the customer needs.

In Turkish: takt zamanı, takt süresi

How it is used

Used to design lines and set the rhythm of work. If a shift has 27,000 seconds of working time and the customer needs 450 units, takt time is 60 seconds. Stations should finish their work within takt time. The word comes from German 'Takt' (beat, rhythm).

Example sentences

  1. With the new order volumes, takt time drops from 60 to 48 seconds.

  2. Station 6 is over takt time, so the line can't keep up with demand.

Common collocations

  • calculate takt time
  • meet takt time
  • over takt time
  • takt time of 60 seconds
  • cycle timeThe time it takes to complete one unit or one full round of a task at a machine or workstation, from start to finish.
  • line balancingDividing the tasks on a production line among the workstations so that each station has about the same amount of work and none is over takt time.
  • assembly lineA production line where parts are added to a product step by step, with each worker or robot doing one fixed task, as in car and appliance plants.
  • lean manufacturingA way of running production that aims to deliver what the customer needs with the least waste of time, material and effort, based on the Toyota Production System.

More terms: Lean Manufacturing

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