Mitra, Debasis; Mitrani, Isi - In: Management Science 36 (1990) 12, pp. 1548-1566
We describe and analyze a discipline called kanban for the coordination of cells in a large-scale manufacturing facility. There are many cells in a tandem configuration and a fixed number of cards (or kanbans in Japanese usage) in each cell. The cards circulate within the cell and their presence...