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Who is the Grand Poobah of Toyota Production System? The Wizard of Lean? His Royal Eminence of Efficiency? Sure, he had some help, but Taiichi

Lean manufacturing first became known in the late 1970’s as “Kanban” or “Just-in-Time,” and was often considered a distinctly Japanese approach for dealing with suppliers.

A Kanban Board is relative of the Kanban cards (Kanban is Japanese for “signpost”) that were originally developed to aid production at Toyota. Instead of

A Kanban is a visual signal that triggers an action, typically to make a unit, move a unit, or order a unit.

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