Cycle Time

Cycle Time - The time required for a process (or subprocess) to execute from start to completion.

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Source: Larry English, http://www.iaidq.com/main/glossary.shtml , 19-Jan-2009 11:27

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Cycle Time - The time required to complete one cycle of an operation. If cycle time for every operation in a complete process can be reduced to equal takt time, products can be made in single-piece flow. Also see takt time.

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Source: American Society for Quality, 16 September 2010 10:42:01, http://www.asq.org/glossary/

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Cycle Time - Cycle time is the total time from the beginning to the end of your process, as defined by you and your customer. Cycle time includes process time, during which a unit is acted upon to bring it closer to an output, and delay time, during which a unit of work is spent waiting to take the next action.

In a nutshell - Cycle Time is the total elapsed time to move a unit of work from the beginning to the end of a physical process. (Note, Cycle Time is not the same as Lead Time).

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Source: iSixSigma, 13 January 2011 08:52:44, https:web.archive.org/web/20111109014246/http:www.isixsigma.com/index.php?option=com_glossary