Papers and Articles on Operations Management: Kanban Articles

Kanban versus MRPII - which is best for you? - Kanban Article

ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: First-hand look at how the Kanban system works. His findings shatter a few myths and point out how we can gain the best of both worlds.

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IKS – Integrated Kanban System - Kanban Article

ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Heard it before? A simple and reasonable enough statement from any shop floor supervisor, but one that has on a daily basis, frustrated the hell out of every operations management professional.

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Kanban in batch production - Kanban Article

ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Defines Kanban and looks at its application within batch production.

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PUBLISHER: Institute of Operations Management

Vol 20 - No 03 - April/May 1994... read article...

JIT for high variety/low volume manufacturing - Kanban Article

ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Paper describes an alternative plant layout for such environments that enables material flow to be controlled using Kanban signals.

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When push comes to shove is MRPII infinite push or finite pull? - Kanban Article

ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: MRP II and Kanban are frequently regarded as competing systems with MRP II described as a 'push' technique and Kanban a 'pull' technique. The authors discuss the merits of both systems and in what situations each is appropriate.

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Kanban: the old and the new - Kanban Article

ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Provides an overview of Kanban, the classic signalling device for production pull systems. Kanban has been around for many years and is well established in a large number of companies. It is the classic signalling device for production pull systems. Nevertheless there remain unc... read article...

Advanced Planning and Scheduling: today's hot topic in manufacturing systems - Kanban Article

ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: An overview of Advanced Planning and Scheduling. The historical development of APS and its key features. A comparison between APS and ERP, a review of some technical features and explanation of terminology. Concludes with a look at some current application areas and possible fut... read article...

Editorial: the new century - Kanban Article

ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: The start of a new century (and a new millennium) is a good time to look further ahead, and at a wider range of activities than we might normally do...

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Defining Objectives and Benefits of an ERP Implementation - Kanban Article

ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: ERP systems have the potential for substantially improving the business. However the business benefits of any project need to be accepted by everyone if they are to be fully acheived...

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Survey of Automotive Component Suppliers in Wales - Kanban Article

ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Is it true that organisations take an unplanned and unstructured approach to the introduction of improvement initiatives? Is it a case of ‘let's look for the latest initiative which will save us' approach rather than thinking through the organisational needs and objectives which... read article...

Numatics International, Chard - Kanban Article

ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: Firstly, apologies for the delay in putting fingers to keys on this particular report. The 28th November seems a very long time ago now, but the memories of our visit to Numatic International in Somerset remain fresh

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Alpharma Barnstaple Visit - Simultaneous Planning by MRP and Electronic Kanban - Kanban Article

ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: The long trip through the beautiful Devonshire countryside on the 25th April proved both interesting and thought provoking for all who attended.

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News & views: Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder - Kanban Article

ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: At the recent ‘Don Ralston Lecture and Dinner’ at which my wife and I were honoured to attend, there was a lively discussion about the success or otherwise of IT in the manufacturing supply chain. Some took the view that none of the MRP/ERP systems that they knew had... read article...

Integrating Lean and Agile Thinking: Concepts in Support of Practice - Kanban Article

ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: The emergence of Just-in-Time (JIT) manufacturing in the 1980s signified a turning point in logistics management and the development of what is now called lean supply.

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A Blast Against The Monstrous Regiment of Toyota - Kanban Article

ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: It has by now become a prevailing orthodoxy that the manufacturing systems pioneered and developed so effectively by the Toyota Corporation of Japan, (Lean manufacturing, Quality assurance, JIT, Supply Chain Management, Kaizen, and so on), represent the apex of manufacturing exc... read article...

What the Customer Wants: Making at the Pull of the Customer - Kanban Article

ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: In the previous articles in this series we have worked through the first three of the Lean Principles, namely understanding customer value, understanding the capability of a value stream and moving from ‘batch and queue’ to making the product flow through the value s... read article...

Quick Response Manufacturing: ‘When Kanban is Not the Solution’ - Kanban Article

ARTICLE DESCRIPTION: In the summer of 2002 two articles [1,2] written by Lindsay Harding appeared in Control magazine. They described the Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM) approach developed by Rajan Suri at the University of Wisconsin in the USA.

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