Quick Introduction to Production Leveling (Heijunka)

Heijunka is the Japanese name for production leveling, a scheduling technique for repetitive multi product production.

Instead of trying to stick to varying demand or run long production series, leveling seeks periodic demand patterns for scheduling repetitive small production runs.

Heijunka or leveling enables taming the variations in demand and keeping schedules consistent, using a kind of production routine, thus forcing a form of stability.

Let’s discover Heijunka through a simplified example with this short video.

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One thought on “Quick Introduction to Production Leveling (Heijunka)

  1. gracias .Muy util .

    Brenda MG

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