Anca Bradau - 2008-11-25

Hi all,

We want to contribute to the description of the manufacturing elements.  Are a few words below and their definition, the manufacturing timings. 

Queue time - Amount of time a person, signal, or thing spends before being attended to, or before value adding work is performed to or on it. In many factories queue time constitutes about 90 percent of the total lead time. It is a subset of cycle time.
The source is:  http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/queue-time.html

Queuing time - the time between the arrival of material at a workstation and the start of work on it
The source is: http://dictionary.bnet.com/index.php?d=queuing+time

Cycle time - Period required to complete one cycle of an operation; or to complete a function, job, or task from start to finish. Cycle time is used in differentiating total duration of a process from its run time.
The source is: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/cycle-time.html

Waiting time- Period at job for which an employee is paid but is unable to work due to factors beyond his or her control. Also called allowed time, downtime, or idle time.
The source is: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/waiting-time.html

What is your opinion? How do these definitions seem?

Best regards,
Anca Bradau - www.arhipac.ro