The document discusses the principles of kanban systems for limiting work-in-progress and visual signaling. It describes how kanban works by having cards that are pulled from upstream processes when empty and pushed to downstream processes when full. This pulls work through the system and limits WIP at each step. The document also explores how digitizing kanbans can make the system less useful if it loses the visual component.
6. Kan-ban is a Japanese
word that literally means
"signal card" in English. In a
manufacturing environment, this
card is used as a signal to tell
an upstream step in a
process to produce
more work.
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45. companies
inevitably feel they
can computerise this
whiteboard, however,
they almost always
create a more elegant
but less useful
system
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72. Kan-ban is a Japanese
word that literally means
"signal card" in English. In a
manufacturing environment, this
card is used as a signal to tell
an upstream step in a
process to produce
more work.
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