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Kanban systems have been invented by the Japanese Toyota Motor Corporation in the 1950s. Meanwhile, this implementation of the Just-in-Time-principle gained worldwide popularity, reputation and success. At Chemnitz University of Technology, the professor-ship " Modelling and Simulation " investigates such systems and analyses their perfomance according to costs and all the classical performance measures. The aim is to design Kanban systems in an optimal way. For that reason we apply simulation optimization, and that is why the KaSimIR–simulator has been developed. This software completely imitates the working process using the same structures that can be found in a real multi-stage, Kanban-controlled system. This report starts with some introductory comments and a literature overview of this subject. Afterwards, a short review of simulation-based research of Kanban systems is given. Furthermore, some general requirements for a simulator of multi-stage Kanban-controlled systems will be defined. The following sections contain in detail the concepts of the KaSimIR–simulator, its main structures and the selection rules within. The basic classes of that software will be described as well as its organization and the statistical monitoring. A few words will remark on the usage of KaSimIR too. Finally, the last section finishes this report with a short resume and outlook to future work. Furthermore, a comprehensive list of references completes this report.