kanban
See also: Kanban
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Etymology edit
From Japanese 看板 (かんばん, kanban), from 看 (kan, “visible”) + 板 (“board or card”), developed and first used in the Toyota Production System.
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Noun edit
kanban (countable and uncountable, plural kanbans or kanban)
- (countable) A card containing a set of manufacturing specifications and requirements, used to regulate the supply of components. [from 1980s]
- 1986, David J. Lu, transl., edited by Japan Management Association, Kanban Just-in Time at Toyota: Management Begins at the Workplace, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 93:
- The sub-assembly line assembles A. It goes to processing line 1 to withdraw part a, and for this purpose it must take the sub-assembly kanban (called withdrawal kanban). It goes to store a, withdraws boxes in the required quantity and removes those kanban (called in-process kanban or production-ordering kanban) that are attached to the boxes.
- A coordinated manufacturing system using such cards.
- (by extension) A system to manage, visualise, and improve work across teams, often as part of an agile methodology. [from 2000s]
- kanban board
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- kanban on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- kanban (development) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “kanban”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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