Operations / Manufacturing
Throughput
How fast the system turns work into finished output, but "output" means units to an engineer and money to a constraints accountant.
The fork, why two teams get different numbers
Industrial engineering: throughput is good units produced per unit time, the process output rate, ultimately set by the bottleneck.
In the Metric Library
- The full fork, both definitions worked all the way through
- The trap that makes the number lie, on a real export
- Every formula variant, spelled out
- The reconciliation anchor, what to tie it to and when to refuse
Reference: Goldratt Theory of Constraints (throughput accounting) · APICS/ASCM (output rate) · Little's Law