In Whiteboard cycles represent the time it takes for a machine/line to produce one unit of a product. For example, if a machine is bottling some soda, how long does for the machine to produce one bottle. Cycles is not the same as the number of parts that were made. In a given cycle a machine could make eight parts but it only took one cycle. Cycle calculations come in many forms each representing a variation in the cycle calculations.
Many Cycle Calculation is cycle calculation in whiteboard will show the actual, expected and the variance between these two calculations.
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