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Introduction to Kanban for Manufacturing If you are looking for a way to reduce waste in your facility, the Kanban methodology might be the perfect solution. Kanban was developed by the Toyota Corporation and has since been used by thousands of manufacturing companies around the world. The effectiveness of this […]
Tony Ferraro | September 10, 2015 | Kanban | Kanban
Kanban A to Z Kanban is one of the older Lean tools or strategies tracing its origins back to (where else) Toyota. Kanban itself is system that helps companies sort through their potentially hectic operations and come out on the other side with the most efficient way possible to cope […]
Tony Ferraro | March 6, 2015 | Kanban | Kanban
Kanban is a Japanese lean manufacturing term that is associated with the flow of production in a workplace. Kanban is usually achieved by visualizing or attaching moving cards to each stage of the production process so that you can see how many units are in any one stage at a […]
Tony Ferraro | November 12, 2013 | Kanban | Eliminate Waste, Kanban
Kanban is a system that was developed long ago by a very well known company, Toyota. It is very popular in the world of business and is widely used due to its uniqueness and ease in use. This system has brought modern planning, working conditions, management and other aspects of […]
Mike Wilson | October 16, 2012 | Kanban | Continuous Improvement, Kanban, Lean Manufacturing
Ron Pereira wrote about the coffee lid dispenser he encountered in the San Francisco airport Starbucks in his article “Improving Point of Use Lid Storage at Starbucks” on LSS Academy. A typical customer at Starbucks probably just goes and grabs a lid out of the dispenser, and goes about their […]
Mike Wilson | October 5, 2012 | Kanban | Continuous Improvement, Kanban
Kanban is an inventory and replenishment system that assists in determining what, when, and how much to produce. It is a scheduling system that maintains inventory levels used in lean manufacturing or Just-In-Time (JIT) production. When material is consumed, a signal is sent to produce and deliver another shipment. It […]
Mike Wilson | September 25, 2012 | Kanban | Continuous Improvement, Kanban
The Kanban system promotes efficiency. It is not an especially complicated system. Sometimes, though, we must go back to the most basic basics. So let’s review the principles of the Kanban system. Nipon Ekanaronqpun describes Kanban this way in his article What Is The Kanban System for Lean Manufacturing?: The […]
Mike Wilson | July 14, 2012 | Kanban | Kanban, Lean Manufacturing