From the BCT Deviation Function to Fractal Manufacturing

In this chapter, we explain the underlying theory of Fractal Manufacturing. We develop the understanding and necessary requirements for the manufacturing-mathematical conditions to implement the Corollary to the Theorem of Balanced Workstation Occupancy (Corollary of Stochastically Minimized BCT Variability or BCT Deviation Function) to match the Theorem of Batch-Flow Requirements (or Flow Imitating Theorem). This to be able to apply the “batch cycle time” BCT Deviation Function in practice. We have put BCT in quotation marks because we intend here batch generically; indeed, we will apply it not to the original batch but to a portion, a fraction, called job made of variable quantum, which is also a kind of batch but much smaller manufacturing batch.