A 'Little' Law Goes a Long Way Toward Improvement

摘要

Using Little's Law that shows a relationship between works-in-progress, throughput, and cycle time, a shop produced dramatic improvements. Fitting into the right niche can mean the difference between success and failure. Imagine a room full of baseballs. The interstitial space between the balls is pretty small - not a lot of room between the spheres of influence to find a market. But, if that same room were full of weather balloons, the "markets" between them expand.