Six Sigma SPC's Quality Control Dictionary and Glossary
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Downtime

Idle time of facilities, operators, machines, etc. resulting from defects or other events whether scheduled or not. For example, a process change.

In some industries this group is very large and hence is important. In other companies however, this is ignored and is sometimes calculated into the cycle time.

Also see non-value adding activities.

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