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Virtual Kanban G5

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Virtual Kanban G5

Kanban system used in manufacturing line mostly using manual kanban in their planning and execution. It is a very complex system when using in Supply Chain management system within automotive industry in which there are several layers of supply to the main principal. As suppliers must adopt kanban system to support main principal, they are struggling with the execution. Especially when they are a large company supply to several major automotive principals with thousands of articles in production line

To overcome this problem some companies developed e-Kanban system to move the complexities into programmable system. This has eliminated problem with thousands of kanban cards at production lines. However, for most Japanese companies the spirit of Kanban is lost in full e-Kanban system No more cards, no more teamwork spirit when dealing with problems in the field.

To accommodate this problem, there is a system called Virtual Kanban G5. The purposes is having e-kanban in the system while maintaining kanban cards as a data input. Workers and managers still feel the kanban process in their manufacturing lines while having a detailed real-time data flow in the system.

References

Virtual Kanban G5 Wikipedia