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JP Patil is Director of Strategic Initiatives at Digite, where he focuses on trying to understand how people work and how to help them get things done faster and with higher quality. There has been a ...

Kanban is a Japanese word, and the methodology it describes was conceived by Toyota for its production floor. Its origins are in manufacturing, but it has since been adopted in software development ...

The production system using kanban was pioneered by Toyota Motor Company in Japan and subsequently it was adopted by numerous other Japanese and US companies for applying the just-in-time ...

Three problem areas exist in designing and implementing a kanban controlled JIT system: the identification of flow lines problem, the flow line loading problem and the operational control problem.

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In my last post I discussed a service, Open HUB, that’s invaluable for finding and researching free, open source software (FOSS). In that post I searched, as an example, for a Kanban solution. One of ...

I think most would agree that the Toyota Production System (TPS) has revolutionized business around the world, particularly manufacturing. What makes the TPS so revolutionary? I worked in management ...