Throughput and Flow Time

Flow Time

Flow time says how long a job spends in the system.

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Flow Time

Flow time is 3 hours per job.

flow time=3\text{flow time} = 3
WIP and flow timeThe chart recomputes WIP and the shorter-flow-time what-if.Little's Law WIP and flow timethroughput 12 jobs/hour; flow time 3 hours; WIP 36 jobscasethroughputflow timeWIPchangebase12336baselinewhat-if12224reduction 12basebase WIP 3612 x 3what-ifwhat-if WIP 2412 x 2what-if WIP 24; reduction 12deterministic Little's Law arithmetic only