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Operations

Throughput

Also known as output rate

How much work actually gets completed in a period — orders shipped per day, tickets closed per hour.

Example

Adding a second packer lifted throughput from 40 to 75 orders a day.

Related terms

Bottleneck
The single slowest step that limits how fast the whole process can go. Speeding up anything else changes nothing until you fix it.
Capacity
The maximum your team or setup can handle before quality drops or things break.

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