| activation | Running a machine or resource when it doesn’t contribute to throughput.
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| assembly buffer | A time buffer placed immediately prior to an assembly for nonconstrained components.
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| constraint | Anything that inhibits a system’s progress toward its goals.
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| constraint buffer | A time buffer placed immediately prior to a constraint.
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| constraint management | A framework for managing the constraints of a system in a way that maximizes the system’s accomplishment of its goals.
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| decouple | To reduce the direct dependency of a process step on its predecessor.
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| inventory (constraint management definition) | Money invested in things the system intends to sell.
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| operating expenses | In constraint management, this is the money the system spends turning inventory into throughput.
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| production batch | The quantity produced at a workcenter before changing over to produce something else.
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| shipping buffer | A time buffer immediately prior to shipping.
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| statistical fluctuation among dependent events | Disruptions caused by accumulating variability among processing times of processes that depend on each other.
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| throughput | In constraint management, dollars generated by sales.
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| time buffer | A buffer of inventory that will keep a resource busy for a specified amount of time.
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| transfer batch | The quantity produced at a workcenter before transferring the products to the next step in the process.
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| utilization (constraint management definition) | The time a resource is used and contributing to throughput divided by the time the resource was available.
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