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Toyota also commonly distinguishes between total efficiency, involving the performance of an entire production process or value stream, and local efficiency, involving the performance of one point or step within a production process or value stream. It emphasizes achieving efficiency in the former over the latter.
See: Overproduction, Seven Wastes

A mass production approach to operations in which large lots (batches) of items are processed and moved to the next process or work station — regardless of whether they are actually needed there — where they wait in a line (a queue).

Continuous Flow, Lean Production, Overproduction, Push Production

Adapted from the lean terms  lexicon.