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- Japanese · borrowed from平準化“levelling”
- English todayheijunka
From Japanese 平準化 (heijunka, “levelling”, noun).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
heijunka
Today it means: The smoothing of a production process so that intermediate goods are made available at a constant rate and inventory is always available when required. Full definition →
Japanese 平準化