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Fill Time, Inventory and Capacity in a Multi-Item Production Line under Heijunka Control

In: Operations Research Proceedings 2011

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  • Andreas Tegel

    (Robert Bosch GmbH, Bosch Green Logistics)

  • Bernhard Fleischmann

    (University of Augsburg)

Abstract

The concept of production levelling (or Heijunka), which is part of the Toyota Production System, aims at reducing the variance of upstream material requirements and of workload utilization.When using Heijunka control, however, the fluctuation of the external demand has to be compensated by the fill time (the time from demand arrival until fulfilment) and/or end product inventory and/or reserve capacity. The inventory is usually controlled by Kanban loops. But precise statements on the necessary number of Kanban to guarantee a certain fill time are missing in literature.We consider a multi-item production line with a given Heijunka schedule and Poisson demand.We derive approximate analytic relationships between fill time, inventory and capacity for three different planning situations.

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  • Andreas Tegel & Bernhard Fleischmann, 2012. "Fill Time, Inventory and Capacity in a Multi-Item Production Line under Heijunka Control," Operations Research Proceedings, in: Diethard Klatte & Hans-Jakob Lüthi & Karl Schmedders (ed.), Operations Research Proceedings 2011, edition 127, pages 415-420, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:oprchp:978-3-642-29210-1_66
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29210-1_66
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