When I first embraced Lean in the 1990’s, I was aligned with a version of the TPS called Demand Flow Technology or DFT. DFT took great pains to not use Japanese terms, and to be as American as possible. In fact, the word Kanban was one of the few Japanese words that made it through. And in those days the term Kanban and the term Two-Bin Kanban were virtually synonymous. For years I was under the impression that the two-bin method was the way the Kanban was implemented by everyone. Don’t get me wrong: the two-bin method is still alive and well today, but it has disappeared as an across-the-board method that would be used for all parts, and replaced with what we call the Multi-Bin Kanban method.
16 июл 2024
