Throughput
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Economics & Business Dictionary
Definition
An operations concept defining how work, materials, and information flow through an organization to deliver products or services. It specifies planning, control, and improvement methods for capacity, quality, inventory, and delivery performance. It does not guarantee service levels without accurate demand signals, stable processes, and appropriate buffers.
Throughput
Natural & Formal Sciences Dictionary
Definition
The rate at which a system, component, or network successfully completes or transfers work items or data over a specified interval, typically expressed as units per second (requests/s, MB/s, transactions/s).
Throughput
Engineering & Applied Technologies Dictionary
Definition
The number of completed units, tasks or work items exiting a process or system per unit of time measured at a specified point under specified operating conditions; in production, throughput refers to finished, accepted output delivered to the next process or customer within the chosen measurement interval.