A term that is often used in system analysis. A buffer interrupts a flow and opens a space for contents that can be stored and loaded again. It is the link between two elements in a chain.
In Technodiversity, we take this concept to describe interruptions in a harvestingprocess, which divide the process into two sub-processes. Since the buffer allows to store the logs, the connected sub-processes must not wait one for each other and can develop their full productivities.
In the functiogram, the buffers are represented by a button while the cub-processes are shown by arrows. In order to concatenate the sub-processes, they must meet at a buffer. So, the buffers have a key role for building and optimizing harvestingprocesses.
