Leveling of Low Volume and High Mix Production based on a Group Technology Approach
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Production leveling is an essential element of the Toyota Production System. It aims at balancing production volume as well as production mix to reduce waste, overburden, and unevenness. The application of conventional leveling approaches is limited by the requested product diversity. Because of this production leveling is predominantly used in high volume production. Nevertheless it can be implemented in low volume and high mix production by means of an adapted leveling approach. This approach applies principles of Group Technology for leveling. It uses clustering techniques to group product types into families according to their manufacturing similarity. Based on this, a family-oriented leveling pattern is generated. This paper presents a systematic procedure to level production considering constraints of low volume and high mix production. It describes which grouping criteria can be applied and how product families can be formed for leveling.
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