throughput

(noun)

The movement of inputs and outputs through a production process.

Related Terms

Examples of throughput in the following topics:

  • Internal and External

    • TOC assumes that throughput, operational expense, and inventory are the three central inputs in a given system.
    • TOC relies on the assumption that there is always room for improvement in these inputs–after all, if there was nothing preventing the system from achieving higher throughput, throughput would be infinite.
    • Since throughput is never infinite, this is an ongoing process.

  • Total Quality Management

    • In contrast, cell layouts promote JIT goals by featuring unidirectional product flows, high visibility, and fast throughput times.

  • Managerial Accounting

    • Throughput Accounting: Production processes have a great deal of inter-dependency.
    • Measuring the contribution per unit of constrained resource is called throughput accounting.

  • Operating Expenses, Non-Operating Expenses, and Net Income

    • In short, this is the money the business spends in order to turn inventory into throughput.

  • Filtration

    • To achieve higher total throughput or avoid premature blockage, pre-filters might be used to protect small pore membrane filters.

  • Metagenomics

    • The first metagenomic studies conducted using high-throughput sequencing used massively parallel 454 pyrosequencing.

  • DNA Sequencing Based on Sanger Dideoxynucleotides

    • The later development by Leroy Hood and coworkers of fluorescently labeled ddNTPs and primers set the stage for automated, high-throughput DNA sequencing.

  • Detecting Uncultured Microorganisms

    • This was further followed by high-throughput sequencing which did the same process as the shotgun sequencing but at a much bigger scale in terms of the amount of DNA that could sequenced from one sample.

  • Microarrays and the Transciptome

    • The study of transcriptomics, also referred to as expression profiling, examines the expression level of mRNAs in a given cell population, often using high-throughput techniques based on DNA microarray technology.

  • Autoimmune Diseases

    • Modern high throughput technologies, like mRNA microarrays, have enabled researchers to investigate diseases at a genome-wide level.