holgura de seguridad

English translation: safety margin

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Spanish term or phrase:holgura de seguridad
English translation:safety margin
Entered by: patinba

07:13 Feb 28, 2018
Spanish to English translations [Non-PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Manufacturing / capacity management
Spanish term or phrase: holgura de seguridad
La separación del valor del tiempo ocioso entre holgura de seguridad y exceso de capacidad deberá evaluarse a partir de datos históricos

I'd be very grateful for colleagues' ideas on how to best translate *holgura de seguridad* in the above sentence. It appears in an article on product costing in a manufacturing setting. The specific section is on capacity management.

As you can see, the key message of the sentence is that some idle time is good (appropriate slack) and some is wasteful (excess capacity). I've translated as *slack* for the moment but would be keen to hear if there's a way to incorporate *de seguridad* (*security slack* sounds downright weird :-) )

Thanks all in advance for your ideas!
Allison Neill-Rabaux
Local time: 17:38
safety margin
Explanation:
A theory for setting the "safety margin" on availability guarantees in an ...
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1563899/
by L Zhou - ‎2005 - ‎Cited by 34 - ‎Related articles
A theory for setting the "safety margin" on availability guarantees in an SLA. Abstract: A Service Level Agreement (SLA) is a contract between provider and customer that stipulates certain Quality of Service guarantees. One parameter of an SLA can be the maximum downtime guaranteed over the contract time. If the actual ...
Secondary downtime constraint
https://sort.symantec.com/public/documents/sf/5.1/aix/html/v...
Of course, if the repair is not completed within the guaranteed period, the SRL overflows despite any guarantee, so it is a good idea to add a safety margin to any such estimate. To arrive at an estimate of the SRL size needed to support this constraint, first obtain estimates for the maximum downtimes which the Secondary ..
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patinba
Argentina
Local time: 14:38
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safety margin


Explanation:
A theory for setting the "safety margin" on availability guarantees in an ...
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1563899/
by L Zhou - ‎2005 - ‎Cited by 34 - ‎Related articles
A theory for setting the "safety margin" on availability guarantees in an SLA. Abstract: A Service Level Agreement (SLA) is a contract between provider and customer that stipulates certain Quality of Service guarantees. One parameter of an SLA can be the maximum downtime guaranteed over the contract time. If the actual ...
Secondary downtime constraint
https://sort.symantec.com/public/documents/sf/5.1/aix/html/v...
Of course, if the repair is not completed within the guaranteed period, the SRL overflows despite any guarantee, so it is a good idea to add a safety margin to any such estimate. To arrive at an estimate of the SRL size needed to support this constraint, first obtain estimates for the maximum downtimes which the Secondary ..

patinba
Argentina
Local time: 14:38
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Thanks for this suggestion, Patinba!

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