How to Calculate Takt Time in Production Process

Helpful Information

• Takt time is the pace of production (E.g in Manufacturing one piece every minute) that aligns production with customer demand
• In plain English, it is how fast you need to manufacture product in order to fill your customer demand
• Takt time calculation=Available time / customer demand. For example if customer requires 100 bulbs a day, the Takt time the Takt time is 8 hrs /100
• 8 hrs is the working time in your 9 hours working day (so you need to exclude your breaks, meetings etc) to mention the available time(numerator)
• This means a bulb to be completed every 4.8 minutes