Production leveling

Heijunka (平 准 化) is a concept from Japanese production concepts.

In Heijunka it comes to the degree of harmonization of the production flow through a quantitative balance. It is a continuation of the Heikinka, the leveled production, in which the already solid production cycle is repeated more than once a day. Without leveling no synchronous production system can be created.

Queues, and so lying and transport times should be largely avoided Heijunka. A floating production (Continuous Flow Manufacturing) with short transport routes to requirement. The concept is particularly attractive in view of complex, multi-step production of high importance. The respective bottlenecks here act limiting for the whole system (compensation law of planning) and at the same time generate so with all other parts of waste (see also: Muda ).

• Production Management
• Planning and organization
• Quality Management