{"id":35242,"date":"2020-02-13T09:21:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T08:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ak-online.de\/2020\/02\/short-and-sweet-rhythm-wheel\/"},"modified":"2020-02-13T09:21:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T08:21:06","slug":"short-and-sweet-rhythm-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/short-and-sweet-rhythm-wheel\/","title":{"rendered":"Short and sweet: Rhythm Wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Rhythm Wheel<\/em> or <em>Product Wheel<\/em> is a planning concept for product-mix production and was originally used primarily in the chemical industry.<\/p>\n<p>If a mix of different products has to be manufactured on a production line and relatively few products make up a large part of the capacity utilization, the Rhythm Wheel concept provides for the production requirements of the dominant products to be used as a basis for an EPEI calculation (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/2014\/12\/short-sweet-epei-every-part-every-interval\/\">See in a <em>nutshell<\/em> in Potentials 4\/2014<\/a>), a production mix is put together that is run through on a rolling basis and leaves a sufficient time slot free in each cycle to manufacture less frequently required products or to carry out maintenance work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our tip:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Demand conditions are rarely so stable that the calculated product mix can be maintained over a longer period of time. For this reason, regularly adjust the required product mix based on the future requirements of the next at least four future wheel cycles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhythm Wheel or Product Wheel is a planning concept for product-mix production and was originally used primarily in the chemical industry. If a mix of different products has to be manufactured on a production line and relatively few products make up a large part of the capacity utilization, the Rhythm Wheel concept provides for the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":30240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1756,1722,1758],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-production-manufacturing","category-production-control","category-scm-glossary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}