“Many companies change the physical layout of equipment and think that one-piece flow will automatically follow. But they often are creating fake flow. An example of fake flow would be moving equipment close together to create what looks like a one-piece flow cell, then batching product at each stage with no sense of customer takt [“takt” = the pace of customer demand]. It looks like a cell, but it works like a batch process.” 

The Toyota Way 2nd Edition by Jeffrey K. Liker (McGraw Hill, 2021) p. 73.