"Why to include, in the waste metrics, the time those activities being executed after the knock-out was detected?
If the improvement consists of detecting the knock-out earlier in time, the improvement wouldn’t prevent the processing afterwards, because the knock-out would still have to be processed, so this wouldn’t change."
"This doesn’t change the results actually, because all the knock-outs would have the reduction of these activities if you update the metrics. However, I think that the metrics would reflect better the waste because, in an optimal solution (detecting the knock-out as soon as the case starts), the waste could be reduced to 0. "
"Why to include, in the waste metrics, the time those activities being executed after the knock-out was detected? If the improvement consists of detecting the knock-out earlier in time, the improvement wouldn’t prevent the processing afterwards, because the knock-out would still have to be processed, so this wouldn’t change."
"This doesn’t change the results actually, because all the knock-outs would have the reduction of these activities if you update the metrics. However, I think that the metrics would reflect better the waste because, in an optimal solution (detecting the knock-out as soon as the case starts), the waste could be reduced to 0. "
Comment originally by David Chapela de la Campa