A way to control quality by taking one sample and making an accept or reject decision, and, if the decision cannot be made, taking a second sample and making the accept or reject decision by combining the results of both samples....
1) In activity-based cost accounting, an opera?tion that influences the quantity of work required and cost of an activity. Syn: cost driver. 2) In the theory of constraints, an underlying cause that i s responsible for several observed effects....
To take the title of the product but not actually handle, stock, or deliver it (i.e., to have one supplier ship directly to another or to have a supplier ship directly to the buyer's customer).
In the theory of constraints, the constraint is viewed as a drum, and nonconstraints are like soldiers in an army who march in unison to the drumbeat' the resources in a plant should perform in unison with the drumbeat set by the constraint....
The detailed production schedule for a resource that sets the pace for theentire system. The drum schedule must reconcile the customer requirements with the system's constraint(s).