From the course: Stay Lean with Kanban
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Kanban and batches
- Kanban gets a lot of its ideas from lean manufacturing. The famous engineer Taiichi Ohno created Kanban as a way to improve the Toyota production system. The system uses Kanban cards as a way to signal when you needed to pull more products into the pipeline. That's why Kanban is called a pull system. This means that you pull more products based on when there's increased demand. Think about how this might actually work in practice. Let's imagine using a Kanban system with a small sandwich shop. Most sandwich shops use a push system. That means at the beginning of the day the restaurant owner tries to guess how many people will want different menu items. Then, they try to make sure that they have all the ingredients for these items. In a push system, when someone orders a grilled cheese sandwich, the kitchen staff will quickly work to manufacture the sandwich. Then, they push the order out to the customer. Let's imagine a pull system. Here, at the beginning of the day, the kitchen…
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