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Calculating TAKT Time for Production

The document discusses the calculation of TAKT time to determine production requirements for the Sky View Airplane company based on customer demand. It explains how to translate customer needs into operational metrics, using examples from PAL Manufacturers to illustrate the process. The goal is to ensure that production meets demand efficiently by calculating the necessary cycle times for manufacturing planes.

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Calculating TAKT Time for Production

The document discusses the calculation of TAKT time to determine production requirements for the Sky View Airplane company based on customer demand. It explains how to translate customer needs into operational metrics, using examples from PAL Manufacturers to illustrate the process. The goal is to ensure that production meets demand efficiently by calculating the necessary cycle times for manufacturing planes.

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Module 02- Section 13 - Gathering Data Determine SVAC Future

State Requirements.

Now we are going to graph our findings to give our engineers some numbers to work with. And then we
are going to develop what is called a TAKT time. TAKT is German for the word Beat. So it is the beat of
the drum, or customer. How many planes does our customer want? 10 right now. 24 if we can
guarantee the 24.
We have to translate the customer’s heartbeat into our organization. So if we want to get 10 planes out
per day, what does out TAKT time need to be. We need to translate that. In the future, if we want to get
24 planes per day, how many planes do we need to get out per minute? Maybe a better question is: how
many minutes does it take to get a plane out?

So let’s look at how we calculate TAKT time. Let’s use PAL Manufacturers as an example. We looked at
customer demand, What do you think the demand for cylinders was per year?

It was 45,000 units per year. When we looked at it we said we had 480 minutes available per shift, We
were running two shifts, giving us an available 960 minutes per day. What we want to do is get 200
cylinders out per day. If we could get 200 units per day, we would have no problem in attaining the goal
for the year.
If we can do this every day, we know we can produce this number of units done per year.

Course notes, Lean 101, Module 2 Section 13


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The TAKT time is simply the available time we have during the day divided by the customer demand.

So in this case, we have 960 minutes available in the day, divided by the daily 200 cylinders, and that
turns out to be one cylinder every 4.8 minutes. So that is what our TAKT time is. That’s why we wanted
to look at how we are balancing the work.

Ok, so let’s calculate our TAKT time at Sky View Airplane company.

So what I am going to ask the engineers is to give me the cycle time to get a plane through the system.
Between WS 1 & WS 2, how long did it take for 5 planes. It took 27 seconds to get 5 planes into the
queue of WS2.

Course notes, Lean 101, Module 2 Section 13


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That means that on a per plane basis it is 5.4 seconds to get a plane from WS1 to the queue of WS2.

Remember that for WS3 we need to include the set up time. We need to plug in all of these numbers.
In our day, we have to calculate the available minutes, you get a paid 30 minute break, and two ten
minute breaks. That leaves us 430 minutes per shift. So the 24 is the planned number of planes we
need to get out in a day. That means we need to get a plane out every 17.9 minutes. If we need to get a
plane out every 17.9 minutes which means our cycle time per plane needs to lower than 17.9 minutes. If
it is higher, then we have a bottle neck in our system.

Course notes, Lean 101, Module 2 Section 13


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