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Kanban (Japanese: 看板 meaning signboard) is a scheduling system for lean manufacturing (also called just-in-time manufacturing, abbreviated JIT). [2] Taiichi Ohno, an industrial engineer at Toyota, developed kanban to improve manufacturing efficiency. [3] The system takes its name from the cards that track production within a factory.
Kanban (Japanese: 看板, meaning signboard or billboard) is a lean method to manage and improve work across human systems. This approach aims to manage work by balancing demands with available capacity, and by improving the handling of system-level bottlenecks .
A kanban board in software development. Kanban can be used to organize many areas of an organization and can be designed accordingly. The simplest kanban board consists of three columns: "to-do", "doing" and "done", [3] though some additional detail such as WiP limits is needed to fully support the Kanban Method. [4]
Kaizen (Japanese: 改善, "improvement") is a concept referring to business activities that continuously improve all functions and involve all employees from the CEO to the assembly line workers. Kaizen also applies to processes, such as purchasing and logistics , that cross organizational boundaries into the supply chain . [ 1 ]
A heijunka box is a visual scheduling tool used in heijunka, a method originally created by Toyota for achieving a smoother production flow.While heijunka is the smoothing of production, the heijunka box is the name of a specific tool used in achieving the aims of heijunka.
The principles of the Toyota Way are divided into the two broad categories of continuous improvement and respect for human resources. [7] [8] [9] The standards for constant improvement include directives to set up a long-term vision, to engage in a step-by-step approach to challenges, to search for the root causes of problems, and to engage in ongoing innovation.
Mura is a Japanese word meaning "unevenness; irregularity; lack of uniformity; nonuniformity; inequality", [1] and is a key concept in the Toyota Production System (TPS) as one of the three types of waste (muda, mura, muri). [2]
Trello is a web-based, kanban-style, list-making application developed by Atlassian. Created in 2011 by Fog Creek Software , [ 5 ] it was spun out to form the basis of a separate company in New York City in 2014 [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] and sold to Atlassian in January 2017.