Production Kanbans

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This type of Kanban is probably one of the most used and the most basic types of kanban. The card is used in manufacturing and software development to trigger production. 

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  One common way for the production of kanban to start is with a list of everything that needs to be completed in a specific time.  A workstation then provides a production kanban to an area requesting the types of materials or tasks they need produced. This signals the production system to start.  The production kanban will explain key details such as the quality and quantity of the things that need to be produced.  
Example

1. Let’s say process 1 needs to provide process 2 with a certain quantity of parts. 
2. To start, a production kanban will be taken and placed on a board, in a dispatch box or some other type of tool to visually manage your kanban demands.
3. Next, the kanban card is taken according to order and production begins.  The production kanban should give you clear direction and guidance with regards to the production sequence.  In other words, your process may make a wide variety of parts for other processes, the kanbans should be produced in the order that they are placed on the board or in the dispatch box.
4. Once production is complete according to the kanban it is then reattached and moved to an outbound point where the next process step can come and retrieve the needed items.

As you can see the production Kanban triggers the production of only items that are needed.  This keeps the lines full and works only on the pull of actual demand.  This is a major difference than the traditional push system as the pull approach using production kanbans controls the supplying process rather than by a schedule. In this manner the supplying process only produces what the customer process has actually used, and the two processes become linked together in a customer and supplier relationship.

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