| balance delay | In a product-oriented layout, this is the lost resource utilization resulting from differences in processing time at each work center. See line balancing.
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| bottleneck | A constraint in a production system.
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| cycle time | The frequency of products emerging completed from a product-oriented layout.
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| line balancing | A process used to balance the times among work centers in a product-oriented layout to reduce balance delay. See balance delay.
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| production lead time | The amount of time a product spends in a productive system in order to be completed.
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| work elements | Small tasks that make up process steps.
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