Kanban Scheduling Systems

In this practical, real-life workshop participants learn to design and implement kanban scheduling systems that are simple and effective. 

The seminar includes step-by-step procedures, simulation games and exercises. In a class project, learning teams apply their new knowledge and design a system for a part of their own factory. 

Phone to Schedule

816-931-1414

1. Production Scheduling & Control

What Is Production Scheduling?

Six Basic Methods

Selecting A Team Project From Your Factory

Using Process Maps (Exercise)

Operating A Kanban System (Simulation Game)

2. Designing The Kanban System

Demand & Supply Analysis

Signaling

Establishing Stockpoints

Selecting Containers

Estimating Kanban Quantities

Textbook Exercise

Examples

Team Project Work

3. Practical Applications

Special Situations

Suppliers & Kanban

Team Projects

4. Implementing Kanban

Guidelines

Integration With MRP/ERP

More Examples

Participant Projects

What Kanban Is & Where It Fits

• What is production scheduling and why this is important? 

• The essential elements of Kanban systems and why they need to be well-thought-out. 

• About the Six Basic Methods of production scheduling and how each one works in different situations.

• Where Kanban systems work best and where to use other methods.

Practical Experience

• Working with your colleagues, you will develop a Kanban system for part of your own operation. 

• Operate a system firsthand using the Kanban Simulation Game and learn the practical skills of daily operation and scheduling. 

How To Design the System

• The Ten Steps of system design and how the lead to a smoothly functioning Kanban system. 

• How to analyze supply and demand requirements for minimal inventory and maximum performance.

• About Kanban Signals and how to use them for scheduling.

• How to select the best containers and quantities to protect the contents, make inventory status visible and help smooth operations.

• Three methods to determine the proper Kanban quantity for minimum inventory and minimal stockouts.

Integration of Kanban

• How to integrate with an existing MRP/ ERP system for a smoothly functioning schedule.

• How to setup suppliers and help both parties.