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Glossary
Balanced line: A series of workstations, such as an assembly line, where
the time to do the work is nearly equal in each station within a few
seconds. When a line is balanced to takt time, the time it takes to do
the work in each station is equal to takt time or very close—within a
second or two of takt. See also takt time.
Batch and queue: A method of organizing production. In batch and
queue, the focus is on the efficiency of each discrete part of the
production operation, such as a machine or a paint shop, as com-
pared with the efficiency of the system as a whole from the first
operation to final product. Each operation produces ...