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> there's enough built-in downtime / break time between steps that workers can handle longer shifts without reduced productivity.

In the mining industry it's referred to as 'mine time'. The majority of your 12-hour day is spent waiting for other necessary things (competing work, isolations, hazard analysis, approvals) to happen so a 20-minute job can take three hours.



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