Kanban Scheduling System
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A Kanban Scheduling System is a JIT scheduling system that ...
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- See: CONWIP, Lean Manufacturing, Just In Time (Business), Logistical, Inventory Control System, Industrial Engineer, Work in Progress.
References
2015
- (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/kanban Retrieved:2015-5-15.
- (literally signboard or billboard in Japanese) is a scheduling system for lean and just-in-time (JIT) production. Kanban is a system to control the logistical chain from a production point of view, and is an inventory control system. Kanban was developed by Taiichi Ohno, an industrial engineer at Toyota, as a system to improve and maintain a high level of production. Kanban is one method to achieve JIT. Kanban became an effective tool to support running a production system as a whole, and an excellent way to promote improvement. Problem areas are highlighted by reducing the number of kanban in circulation. One of the main benefits of kanban is to establish an upper limit to the work in progress inventory, avoiding overloading of the manufacturing system. Other systems with similar effect are for example CONWIP. A systematic study of various configurations of Kanban systems, of which CONWIP is an important special case, can be found in Tayur (1993), among other papers.