While heijunka is the smoothing of production, the heijunka box is the name of a specific tool used in achieving the aims of heijunka. The heijunka box is...

also known as production smoothing or – by its Japanese original term – heijunka (平準化), is a technique for reducing the mura (unevenness) which in turn...

product. Most factories that use kanban use the colored board system (heijunka box). Many manufacturers have implemented electronic kanban (sometimes referred...

through set-up reduction. A standard tool for achieving this is the Heijunka box. Capacity buffers: ideally a JIT system would work with zero breakdowns...

the problem and not the size of the activity, to kanban, obeya and heijunka boxes and many other diverse examples. In The Toyota Way, it is also known...

Goffey during BBC's 1991 Motorfair Top Gear coverage. Principles such as Heijunka boards, andon pull cords, and Gemba walking have become embedded in aerospace...

of Toyota which are characterized by continuous production processes (heijunka) which are continuously improved (kaizen). "The easy availability of replacement...