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Takt poster
The customer's drumbeat.
Take the time you actually have, divide by what the customer actually needs, and you get takt - the pace the floor must hit. Faster is overproduction. Slower is a queue. On the beat is lean.
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The four steps on the poster
- Time availableThe shift, minus the breaks
- DemandWhat the customer needs today
- DivideThat pace is takt
- CompareEvery timed job, against the beat
Also on the poster
- The arithmetic480 minutes minus 45 of breaks, over 850 cartons - about thirty seconds a carton.
- It changesDemand moves, takt moves. Yesterday's pace is not today's.
- Under is not winningBeating takt all day builds pallets nobody ordered yet.
- The timer knowsEvery time study compares itself to takt - green under, red over.
The line to remember
Takt is not how fast you can go. It is how fast you must.
In the app
The poster comes from Lean Day Toolkit, where it opens from Tools → Takt, next to the tool it describes. Get the app: App Store · Google Play · Amazon Appstore for Fire tablets.
Read more: How to calculate takt time, with a worked example.