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Labor Content
Industrial Engineering

Labor Content

Total direct labor time required to produce one unit or complete one process cycle.

Examples

  1. 01The labor content of one washing machine is 54 minutes, spread across 12 assembly stations.
  2. 02Engineering reviews labor content for each new model variant to see if extra operators are needed.
  3. 03A design change that removes 6 screws cuts the labor content by 1.5 minutes per unit.

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