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demand. For example, if you receive a new product order every 4 hours, to meet
demand, your team needs to finish a product in 4 hours or less.
Takt time is your sell rate and can easily be categorized as the heartbeat of your work
process. It allows you to optimize your capacity in the most appropriate way to meet
demand without keeping too much inventory in reserve.
The term originates from the German word “takt”, which means a beat or a pulse. Takt
time was first used as a metric in the 1930s in Germany for airplane manufacturing.
Twenty years later, it contributed significantly to the rise of Toyota from a small
Japanese carmaker to the largest automobile company in the world.