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Target Condition
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Target Condition

Specific near-term pattern of performance or process behavior that a team is trying to achieve through iterative improvement.

Examples

  1. 01The team's target condition for the next four weeks is a stable cycle time between 55 and 60 seconds, with no operator leaving the cell for material.
  2. 02Each experiment towards the target condition is documented on a storyboard with what was expected and what actually happened.
  3. 03When the target condition is reached, the team checks it holds for two weeks before setting the next one.

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