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Card-Based Control Systems for a Lean Work Design : The Fundamentals of Kanban, ConWIP, POLCA, and COBACABANA

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Title: Card-Based Control Systems for a Lean Work Design : The Fundamentals of Kanban, ConWIP, POLCA, and COBACABANA
Author: , Mark Stevenson, Matthias Thurer
ISBN: 1498746942 / 9781498746946
Format: Soft Cover
Pages: 193
Publisher: Productivity Press
Year: 2016
Availability: In Stock
     
 
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Many shops have simplified their production control by using card-based systems such as kanban and Constant Work-in-Process (ConWIP). Although these systems provide a simple and highly effective visual approach for controlling manufacturing and service operations, all too many shops struggle with failed implementations or achieve results that fall below expectations. These outcomes can be attributed to a poor fit between the actual control problem and the solution applied.

This book takes a different approach to most other books on the subject—as it starts with an introduction to the control problem, instead of the control solution. Card-Based Control Systems for a Lean Work Design outlines how the problems encountered in typical manufacturing shops and service providers can be characterized, which allows for improved problem diagnosis.

The first four chapters of the book lay the foundations for problem diagnosis. The next three chapters then discuss, in sequence, each of the three "traditional" card-based control systems: kanban, ConWIP, and Paired-cell Overlapping Loops of Cards with Authorization (POLCA). The book explains how each of these card-based control systems works and identifies the specific type of control problem to which each system applies.

The next two chapters focus on Control of Balance by Card-Based Navigation (COBACABANA), a system developed for high-variety shops producing made-to-order, customized products. This is the first book to discuss this novel approach, which includes the use of cards to estimate due dates or delivery time allowances.

The book closes with a framework that provides guidance on which system to apply. This framework contrasts the control problem with the control solution. The potential of combining card-based systems is also discussed to create a nested solution.

  • Takes a different approach than most other books on the subject—as it starts with an introduction to the control problem, not the control solution
  • Discusses all major card-based control systems
  • Introduces a new system developed for high-variety shops that extends card-based control to providers of made-to-order, customized products
  • Outlines a unique approach for estimating due dates using cards

List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Authors

Chapter 1 : Basic Concepts
Chapter 2 : Basic Principles Underpinning a Card-Based Control System
Chapter 3 : Simplified Scheduling through Pool Sequencing and a Shop Floor Dispatching Rule
Chapter 4 : How to Diagnose a Control Problem?
Chapter 5 : The Inventory Control Problem : Kanban Systems
Chapter 6 : The Low Variability Order Control Problem : ConWIP
Chapter 7 : Inventory Control Plus Material Requirements Planning for the Order Control Problem : POLCA
Chapter 8 : How to Solve the High Variety Order Control Problem : COBACABANA
Chapter 9 : COBACABANA’s Card-Based System for Delivery Time Estimation Highlights
Chapter 10 : Summary : Framework of Applicability

References
Appendix : Summary of Card-Based Systems
Index

 
 
 
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