Water Tank Littles Law

Illustration of Little’s law using a water tank. The colors indicate green W for waiting time or lead time, yellow Lambda for throughput in quantity per time, and red L for Inventory or current fill level.

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Post or page attached: On the Benefits of Putting Your Processes Close Together, Reducing Lead Time 1 – Inventory, Why Are Job Shops Always Such a Chaotic Mess? Part 2, The Kingman Formula – Variation, Utilization, and Lead Time, On the Different Ways to Measure Production Speed, A Eulogy for Little’s Law,

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