What is Kanban?

Kanban means Signboard or Billboard. Kanban is a scheduling system for lean manufacturing and just-in-time manufacturing (JIT). It takes its name from the cards that track production within a factory. Kanban controls the inventory level at any stage of production.

Benefits of Kanban:

Kanban improves manufacturing efficiency

One of the main benefits of kanban is to establish an upper limit to work in process inventory to avoid overcapacity

Kanban is an effective tool to support the running production system

Kanban reduces wastes.