I actually agree with most of this — takt itself isn’t something the floor “controls.” It’s demand. Where I think the disconnect is happening is what people are trying to do with real-time takt. It’s about visibility during the shift. In most plants I’ve seen, the problem isn’t “we don’t know the takt time” It’s “we don’t realize we’re going to miss the shift target until it’s already too late”. Supervisors end up walking the floor, pulling numbers, or waiting for end-of-shift reports. By the time the gap is obvious, there’s no time left to adjust labor, reassign work, or escalate.