平準化Heijunka
Flow
Heijunka
平準化Japanese
Production levelling: smoothing the volume and mix of production over time.
Examples
- 01Instead of 500 A on Monday and 500 B on Tuesday, the line builds 100 A and 100 B every day.
- 02A Heijunka box releases one Kanban every 20 minutes to the pacemaker process.
- 03A service centre schedules maintenance jobs evenly across the week.