Uncertainties brought about by fluctuations in demand and customers’ requirements have led many established companies to improve their manufacturing process by adopting the Kanban system. By doing so, they are able to manufacture and supply the right product, in the right quantity, at the right place and time. Implementation of the Kanban system resulted in reduction of inventory to minimum lev...

The project‘s objective is to study the role of Kanban in Production system. With the present rate at which the technology is evolving and the competition among the company there is a must among the manufacturer to produce their product at cost efficiency. The theory below hence describes about the impacts of KANBAN in an industry and its basic framework. In this paper we have talked about the ...

The implementation of a new Kanban system in an electronic connector plant is described in this paper. The plant was characterized by relatively long setup time of machines, high variety of products and multiple machines to multiple assembly lines in job assignment. It’s verified that the traditional Kanban system is not suitable for the plant’s production system under study. A multi-triangular...

We present a review on the state-of-the-art of the adoption of a specific Agile Methodology (AM), the Lean-Kanban, in different software development contexts. Such approach requires to break down the software development process into smaller steps, which are implemented with the aid of a Kanban board. We study 14 different Kanban boards and we also examined how features are represented in the b...

This article describes the dynamic model of assembly process of reducer is presented as part of an activity performed in a workshop kanban simulation aimed at students of industrial engineering. The main objective of the model developed is to analyze the behavior of inventory levels workstations and accumulations of kanban cards (production orders) derived from the effects of the cycle time kan...

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate and analyze the implementation process of KANBAN, a lean technique, into a section of Volvo IT (i.e. BEAT). The KANBAN implementation into BEAT when 'resistance for change' and 'forces for change' arise is also analyzed. This implementation of KANBAN is equivalent to change taking place in the Volvo IT's operational process. The thesis follows theori...

Analytical methods have been proposed in the literature for performance evaluation of kanban control systems. Among them, the method presented in [Di Mascolo et al. 96] appears to be of special interest since it can handle manufacturing stages consisting of any number of machines and it is fairly accurate. In this paper, we present a new way of deriving the analytical method presented in [Di Ma...

The traditional kanban system with fixed number of cards does not work satisfactorily in unstable environment. In the adaptive kanban-type pull control mechanism the number of kanban is allowed to change with respect to the inventory and backorder level. It is required to set the threshold values at which cards are added or deleted which is a part of the design. Previous studies used the local ...

The aim of this paper is to define a methodology for determining the optimal size of the supermarket (between two workstations) through the optimization of the number of kanban in a kanban board. It also identifies some production parameters that greatly influence the optimal size of a kanban board. The approach chosen is the building of a simulation model of a single stage multi-product system...

In this study, we propose an analytical model to determine the withdrawal cycle length, kanban sizes and number of kanbans simultaneously in a multi-item, multi-stage, multi-period, capacitated periodic review kanban system. Traditionally, research in kanban systems has been separated into ‘design level’ research, and ‘shop floor level’ research. In both veins of research, especially for the de...