ABSTRACT
This is the honest truth: we all batch, and we do it all the time. To paint a simple picture, have you ever made a “triple batch” of cookies? This is a good example of batching, because we are making one large batch consisting of three smaller batches of the same recipe in one bowl. Making cookies is already a batch process, but our thought concept is, “While I’m already making one small batch, I might as well make all of the batches at once in one large batch.” We tend to think that continuing the same action multiple times, rather than completing one batch at a time, is much more efficient. In a factory, if we had three people each making a single batch at the same time, we would call this working in “parallel.” Working in parallel is different than batching.
