Kanban is a scheduling system for lean and just in time manufacturing industries or services firms. It is a very effective tool for running a production system as a whole, in this system problem areas are highlighted by measuring lead time and cycle time of the full process the other benefits of the Kanban system is to establish an upper limit to work in process inventory to avoid over capacity. The objective of this case study is to implement a standard Kanban System for a Electrical manufacturing MNC company. With this system, the firm implemented use of just in time to reduce the inventory cost stocked during the process. This case study also shows that the Kanban implementation is not only bounded to the company but to their vendor also, from where, some of the components are been assembled. A replenishment strategy was also developed, tested and improved at the company location. A complete instruction manual is also developed as a reference
Keywords
Value Steam Mapping, Kanban, Root Cause Analysis, Replenishment Strategy