Kanban – Lean Challenge

How To Use a Kanban Board

November 17, 2023September 7, 2016 by Mike Wilson

The Kanban board has been used extensively in many Japanese businesses for many decades. Tracing back its history, it was practiced by Toyota in the late 1940s to improve their manufacturing and engineering activities. Actual cards were used by the employees to communicate with the group or workers who come next in line. A Kanban card tells the employees involved in the next step of a process…

Basic Overview of Kanban

November 17, 2023October 14, 2014 by Tony Ferraro

Basic Overview of Kanban Learning about Kanban can be a great way to help improve just about any production process. While the word may sound odd to most people, the processes involved have been proven effective for nearly half a century. The concept was first developed at Toyota, and has now been accepted by thousands of companies as a best practice for logistic controls. The word Kanban…