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    Kanban
    Kanban
    Kanban
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    Kanban

    By Alex Campbell

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    About this ebook

    Do you have a business that struggles to keep track of jobs?

    Do you need to improve your manufacturing efficiency?

    Kanban could well be the answer to your problem?

     

    Most businesses, even successful ones, can face the challenges of being inefficient. In fact, the more success you generate, the likelier it will become. The test for any business is how to overcome such a problem and the answer could well be Kanban.

    Developed in Japan, Kanban uses the rate of demand to control production and in this book, Kanban: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide to the Basic Concepts in

     

    Kanban, you can discover how to implement it through chapters on:

     

    • The history of the concept
    • Core practices
    • Push and pull production
    • How the system works
    • Making a Kanban board
    • How to apply it to manufacturing
    • Advantages of Kanban
    • Software

    And lots more…

     

    Being efficient is the way that any business maximizes its profitability and anything that can help with this should be applied.

     

    Kanban is one of the most important tools ever devised for productivity efficiency and any business, large or small, will see a difference once they implement it.

    Get a copy of Kanban today and improve your business efficiency for the future!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMjPublishing4972
    Release dateOct 5, 2024
    ISBN9798227531544
    Kanban
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    Alex Campbell

    Alex Campbell is an award-winning writer, producer, and director of more than two hundred information films for Fortune Top 25 corporations as well as government agencies, including the National Endowment for the Humanities. He lives in California.

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      Kanban - Alex Campbell

      Introduction

      I would like to thank you for choosing this book, ‘Kanban: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide to the Basic Concepts in Kanban’.

      Kanban refers to a tool predominantly used in organizations to reduce occurrences of obstacles during project completion. The word Kanban comes from Japanese terminology and roughly translates as: billboard.

      Kanban came into being during the 1940s and was introduced by Taiichi Ohno to enhance the work philosophy and output in Toyota. He found that store clerks restocked grocery items by the store’s inventory and not the vendor’s supply. And just about when the items were almost sold out, the clerks would order more of the same. Looking at the grocer’s just in time delivery model, Toyota engineers began to rethink and redesign new methods to adopt a new approach known as Kanban to match the inventory with the demand for the product in order to enhance quality and output.

      Toyota decided to adopt the system and implement it in their firm. They began to send cards to suppliers to inform them about the quantities needed, and the card was stuck back to the products when Toyota received them. Once the parts were put to use, the same card was sent across to the manufacturers to tell them that they were in demand again, thus simplifying the entire process and assembling the different parts on time.

      The system gained popularity and is now part of many organizations across multiple industries. Kanban boards have now evolved into Kanban software. They let a manager and his team know exactly how a project is moving forward.

      The boards serve as a reminder of what some of the obstacles are and how they can be dealt with. This makes it easier to move through the projects and finish them on time with quality output.

      If you are on the lookout to adopt this system in your workplace to enhance productivity and output, then you have come to the right place. This book will act as your basic guide to the Kanban system and how it can be implemented to enhance productivity and output.

      Kanban system serves as just a base for the company to come up with their own set of principles and practices that can be implemented to smoothen out project management. The system should be well understood by the people who will be implementing it in order to exploit its benefits.

      This book will explore the basics of the Kanban system and how it can fit into the different departments in your organization, regardless of its size and industry. The system is also used to predict the outcome of a specific project being carried out through the implementation of statistics and predictors.

      The Kanban system can revolutionize the way in which your organization operates and how projects are carried out and completed.

      Thank you once again for choosing this book; let us begin!

      Chapter One: What is Kanban?

      The Kanban system came into being in the 1940s to manage projects and processes in a company. Engineers at Toyota implemented the process to enhance productivity and provide quality output to its clients and customers.

      The Kanban boards were provided to the management to look at the progress of the project and how the work was moving along. The main intention of using the boards was to find any glitches in the system that might end up being obstacles and fixing them to improve the output.

      History of the Concept

      The history of the Kanban system dates back to early 1940s. Taiichi Ohno is regarded as the father of the concept and happened to be a Japanese Industrial Businessman and engineer who worked for Toyota. He is said to have revolutionized the production system and made key changes that affected the quality of the output.

      The Kanban system was designed to bring together the different elements of the project in order to understand the workflow and deal with any issues that might arise during the progress of the project. These issues could well limit the working of the project and end up delaying it.

      Thus, Ohno wanted to introduce a system that could portray the progress of work and how the project was moving. It was possible to keep in touch with the progress of the project and how the different departments were doing.

      Using the system made it possible to control the different departments and reduce some of the waste, such as the raw materials that were being used.

      Toyota defined the system of Kanban as a relay system to standardize the flow of their different departments. They were inspired by the way in which groceries were delivered to them on time every time. The team had visited a grocery store known as Piggly Wiggly supermarket in the US, where Taiichi looked at how the shelves were stocked with the right number of products to match customer demand, and visual reminders were placed to keep stock of the products. The clerks would know exactly when to call in for more products to be restocked on the shelves.

      The clerks made use of a concept known as JIT, or Just in Time delivery system. Toyota implemented the same in their company, more specifically in the manufacturing department.

      Kanban started with knowing about the customer’s orders and following it up with the production stream. Kanban was nothing but a card that would be issued with an inventory number on it that would be attached to the top part of the inventory.

      Just before the specific part was being used or installed, the card placed on it would be pulled off and sent to a supply chain for another part. As per the system, a part was only ordered if a Kanban card was mentioned on it. This system therefore gained the name pull system owing to the pulling out of the cards.

      The Kanban system predominantly controls the entire system, from the value chain from the supplier’s end right down to customer requirements. It helps to take care of any issues that might come in the way of the supply chain and also reduce surplus items that might be present at varying stages of the production line.

      The Kanban system needs consistent monitoring and attention to the different obstacles that might crop up during production management in order to enhance the movement of the process. All companies that adopt the system aim to attain a higher output with lower delivery times so that it is easier to hold on to existing customers and get new ones on board owing to the efficacy and quality of output provided.

      It was a matter of time before other organizations took notice of the system and began implementing it in their organizations. The main aim was to keep track of the progress of the project and to enhance the output whilst not wasting resources.

      Leaders such as Reinertsen, Dumitriu, and Anderson began adopting the system and applying it to their specific fields. Although their system had variations that were meant to cater to their specific needs, the basic structure remained the same.

      The Kanban system was adopted by Microsoft in 2004 and was not implemented until 2005. The system was fully customized to suit the requirements of the company to maximize the efficacy to match the workflow and keep the business moving from strength to strength.

      The system is now widely used in many companies including Spotify. They swear by the utility that the system provides in order to enhance the productivity and the impact that it has on the final output.

      The system can be adopted by pretty much any organization belonging to any industry.

      What is Kanban all about?

      The word Kanban comes from a Japanese word that roughly means Billboard and was introduced by Taiichi Ohno.

      The concept was inspired by how supermarkets operate and only stock their shelves with items that will meet customer demands and can be restocked based on sales. That is, the number of products that are missing on the shelf, owing to their sale. It is a visual reminder of how many of the products need to be reordered or restocked. This ensures that there is a constant supply of the product without people having to wait for it.

      The same concept can be extended to an organization where each process depends on another. Most organizations can be viewed as supermarkets where the inventory needs to be stocked depending on its use. The parts should be readily available to be implemented without the need to wait.

      The system is simpler than it sounds and can be adopted by just about any organization to enhance output. It is all about knowing exactly how much inventory will be required in order for it to be consumed within a set number of days. This helps to know when new inventory needs to be ordered to restock it.

      Suppliers will be made aware of the materials that need to be supplied based on the cards that are sent to them. This will help them match

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