Production Leveling
Production Leveling optimizes the distribution of production volumes over defined time periods to reduce fluctuations in production and create stable material flows. The algorithm takes into account capacities, demand, constraints, and production priorities to enable a balanced and cost-efficient utilization of production resources. This creates more stable production processes, greater flexibility, and better control over dynamic demand patterns.
Workforce scheduling in production is characterized by:
- Highly fluctuating demand
- Uneven capacity utilization
- Short-term production peaks
- Unstable material flows
- High planning uncertainty
- Increasing responsiveness requirements
Employee Resource Assignment optimizes automatically:
- Distribution of production volumes
- Production smoothing
- Sequencing priorities
- Resource constraints
Time periods can be flexibly defined — for example by shifts, days, weeks, or months.
This becomes particularly critical in the case of:
- varying customer demand
- complex production networks
- limited capacities
- high product variety
- multi-stage production processes
Your benefits through Production Leveling:
More even production utilization
Higher responsiveness in the mid-term horizon (!)
Better use of employee skills
Reduced planning variability
Better capacity utilization
Higher planning reliability
Who is Production Leveling particularly relevant for?
- Line manufacturing
- Flow-oriented production environments
- Paced production
- Variant manufacturing
- Electronics manufacturing
- Electrical engineering industry
- Campaign manufacturing
- Multi-stage production processes
- Kontinuierliche Produktionsumgebungen
Easy Integration
Production Leveling integrates seamlessly into existing:
- APS systems
- MES systems
- ERP systems
- custom planning solutions
The optimisation is implemented via standardized interfaces and enhances existing planning systems with targeted additional optimisation capabilities.
How do production fluctuations impact your planning today?
In a joint discussion, we analyze the underlying planning logic and demonstrate how Production Leveling extends it in a targeted way.