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| Synchronous manufacturing |
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| A production process coordinated to work in harmony to achieve the goals of the firm. |
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| The rate at which money is generated by the system through sales (Goldratt's definition). |
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| All the money that the system has invested in purchasing things it intends to sell (Goldratt's definition). |
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| All the money that the system spends to turn inventory into throughput (Goldratt's definition). |
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| All the actions that bring a company closer to its goals (Goldratt's definition). |
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| Any resource whose capacity is less than the demand placed upon it (Goldratt's definition). |
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| Any resource whose capacity is greater than the demand placed on it (Goldratt's definition). |
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| Capacity-constrained resource (CCR) |
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| A resource whose utilization is close to capacity and could be a bottleneck if not scheduled carefully (Goldratt's definition). |
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