China
Africa
Explore chapters and articles related to this topic
Design
Published in Wanda Grimsgaard, Design and Strategy, 2023
Kanban is a workflow management method that helps teams better define, manage, and improve processes. Like Scrum, Kanban36 aims to help self-organising teams achieve the same goals of more productive work, greater team collaboration, and quicker product delivery (Rosin, 2021). Kanban was originally a logistic control system, developed and applied by Toyota as a scheduling system for just-in-time manufacturing37 in the automotive industry. Here, the point was not to produce anything unless there was a demand for that particular item. Toyota’s unique production system laid the foundation of Lean manufacturing or Lean methodology, as we know it today. The principle of Kanban has later become a territory claimed by Agile software development teams, as well as business units across various industries38. David J. Anderson39 formulated the Kanban method as an approach to incremental, evolutionary process and systems change for knowledge work organisations (kanbanize.com).
Lean in the construction phase of the LPDS
Published in Lincoln H. Forbes, Syed M. Ahmed, Lean Project Delivery and Integrated Practices in Modern Construction, 2020
Lincoln H. Forbes, Syed M. Ahmed
As described above, Pull/Kanban is a system of cascading production and delivery instructions from downstream to upstream activities in which the upstream supplier does not produce until the downstream customer indicates a need. It is an essential part of the just-in-time (JIT) process. In JIT, production is driven by customer demand; that is, the needs of the next trade downstream as opposed to “pushing “ to meet schedules. Essentially, nothing is built until there is an order for it. JIT avoids wastes such as inventory of raw materials, work in process, or finished assemblies that are not yet needed. The JIT system produces only what is needed, when it is needed, and in the quantity that is needed. Therefore, no goods are produced that cannot be sold at a price that is cost effective for the producer.
Agile Project Management and Data Analytics
Published in Seweryn Spalek, Data Analytics in Project Management, 2018
Several challenges emerge with data analytics projects from the application of ASD methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban. Scrum is a highly used ASD framework that is based on cross-functional teams working in iterations within a time-boxed sprint. Kanban differs from Scrum in that it is less structured and focuses on incremental improvements. Kanban can be applied to any process, even Scrum, by managing work in progress (WIP). Kanban pulls work items (a.k.a. work packages, requirements, or stories) through the process focusing on optimizing the work flow of items (Jurney, 2017).
Optimizing patient flow, capacity, and performance of COVID-19 vaccination clinics
Published in IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering, 2022
Leonardo Valladares, Valentina Nino, Kenneth Martínez, Durward Sobek, David Claudio, Sally Moyce
A multidisciplinary team of nurses, physicians, communications specialists, facilities managers, and pharmacists planned two clinics designed to administer the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine three weeks apart in the winter of 2021. Engineering was invited to contribute to the design of the vaccination process. The main goal during the planning of this process was to eliminate vaccine waste and prevent unused doses. Due to the sensitivity of the vaccine to heat and light (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2021), precautions must be taken to ensure that waste is minimized. A Kanban system with a first-in-first-out (FIFO) lane was chosen to achieve this goal. The main idea of Kanban is that each workstation produces the expected component only when it is needed, and this is determined by a visual signal provided by a card or an empty box (Aguilar-Escobar et al., 2015). The Kanban creates a pull material flow that generates an efficient vaccine administration that contributes to reducing vaccine damage.
Centralised vs. decentralised control decision in card-based control systems: comparing kanban systems and COBACABANA
Published in International Journal of Production Research, 2019
Matthias Thürer, Nuno O. Fernandes, Mark Stevenson, Ting Qu, Cong Dong Li
Kanban systems are used to connect production stages or operations to one another to improve coordination, thereby regulating work-in-process and eliminating overproduction. While there have been some studies exploring the use of kanban systems in an assembly context (Faccio, Gamberi, and Persona 2013; Faccio 2014; Khojasteh and Sato 2015; Lolli et al. 2016), most studies focus on multi-stage production lines. Further, much of the extant literature on kanban systems has viewed them as inventory replenishment systems, where the same, known items are used, often realised in the form of kanban containers (e.g. Spearman, Woodruff, and Hopp 1990; Berkley 1992; Buzacott and Shanthikumar 1992; Frein, Di Mascolo, and Dallery 1995; Graves, Konopka, and Milne 1995; Dallery and Liberopoulos 2000; Liberopoulos and Dallery 2000; Diaz and Ardalan 2010; Lage Junior and Godinho Filho 2010; Gonzalez, Framinan, and Pierreval 2012; Chen and Sarker 2015; Khojasteh and Sato 2015).