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News Release from: American Technical Publishers | Subject: Kanban for the Shopfloor
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 26 June 2002
How to simplify KanBan
An orientation to the complex topic of kanban for the factory shop floor is given by a new publication in an organized and easy to assimilate manner.
The latest addition to Productivity's Shingo Prize Winning Shopfloor Series is Kanban for the Shopfloor Created by the Productivity Press Development Team, this book gives an orientation to the complex topic of kanban in an organized and easy to assimilate manner
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 15 Apr 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Kanban for the Shopfloor was written to give manufacturers a powerful tool to educate all employees about kanban as well as provide practical information and how-to steps.
Employees will learn how to begin a kanban implementation, and how to maintain and improve initial efforts.
Kanban is a necessary tool for lean implementation.
A kanban card is essentially a work order that moves with the material.
The primary benefit of kanban is to reduce overproduction-the most critical of the seven deadly wastes.
Using kanbans also increases a manufacturer's flexibility to respond to customer demand, eliminate unnecessary work-in-process inventory, and uncover hidden waste in the manufacturing process.
Manufacturers who use kanbans produce exactly what is ordered, when it is ordered, and in the quantities ordered.
Like all the books in Productivity's Shopfloor Series, Kanban for the Shopfloor contains innovative instructional features such as chapter overviews and summaries; drawings and illustrations; margin icons that flag definitions, main points, and other highlights; examples to reinforce new ideas; suggestions for a reading strategy; and take-five and chapter end reflection questions.
This format allows the material to be easily understood by all employees and provides manufacturers with a resource to immediately begin kanban implementation.
Kanban for the Shopfloor is available through American Technical Publishers (www.ameritech.co.uk/productivity) and sells for GBP 20.00.
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