Takt is a German word for rhythm or meter. Takt is the rate of customer demand—the rate at which the customer is buying product. If we are working seven hours and 20 minutes per day (440 minutes) for 20 days a month and the customer is buying 17,600 units per month, then you should be making 880 units per day or one unit every 30 seconds. In a true one-piece flow process, every step of the process should be producing a part every 30 seconds. If they are going faster, they will overproduce; if they are going slower, they will create bottleneck departments. Takt can be used to set the pace of
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