TAKT TIME VS CYCLE TIME DEFINATIONS & CALCULATION WITH EXAMPLES
TAKT TIME:
Takt time is the maximum amount of time in which product need to be produced to meet the customer demand. Or in other words Takt time is the speed in which product need to created or manufactured to satisfy the needs of customer.
So TAKT TIME Formula
= (Net Time Available for Production)/(Customer’s Daily Demand)
Let's us consider the example from manufacturing industry.
Example:
Company A require 350 pcs to be manufacture in a day.
Based on the requirement Company B will calculate the Takt time for the same.
Let us say available time for production is 7 hours 30 minutes (excluding rest time & lunch
time) that is 450 minutes, but from this also you need to minus the 5s time or start up time if any
during start of shift or end of shift. So let us say 5 minutes time is used for 5s or start up during
start of shift & 5 minutes of 5s at end of shift.
So, Net available time = 450-10= 440 minutes
Takt time = 440⁄350 = 1.25 min/pcs
Takt time assumes a constant daily demand during a day, if daily demand changes Takt time need
to be adjusted.
So, basically above calculation of Takt time gave us the idea that we need to manufacture a part in
1.28 minute to meet the company A demand.
CYCLE TIME
= 450/180 = 2.5 minute/pcs
So, now if we compare with our takt time calculated above, you will not be able to feed the
Company A , Assembly line as our cycle time is more than the Takt time.
for this either need to run 2 shifts for meeting the company A demand or either you need to process
improvements in company B assembly line so that Company A requirement can be met.
By proper calculation of Cycle time & Takt time we can attain lot of benefits:
1) Primary benefit of calculating Cycle time of your product is that you can determine if you are
going to meet the customer requirement or not.
2) Proper calculation of cycle time allow you to proper set up of the processes, it is important for
understanding how many machines, stations or personnel are required for meeting the Takt time so
that requirement can be met.
3) Cycle time help you to identify if there are some improvements or LCA can be done to achieve
Takt time.
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