Production Lead Time (Dictionary Entry)

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06-37-2020
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Lean Management

Term

Production Lead Time

Alternative Forms

  • PLT

  • Throughput Time

  • Total Product Cycle Time

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The time required for a product to move all the way through a process or a value stream from start to finish

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Production Lead Time (also Throughput Time and Total Product Cycle Time)

The time required for a product to move all the way through a process or a value stream from start to finish. At the plant level this often is termed door-to-door time. The concept also can be applied to the time required for a design to progress from start to finish in product development or for a product to proceed from raw materials all the way to the customer.

(Lean Enterprise Institute et al., 2003, p. 12)

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