Mathematical Approach for Determining the Number of Kanbans: A Step towards Non-Stock Production in Manufacturing Scenario

Sudhakara S.

doi:https://doi.org/10.51976/ijari.311534

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Mathematical Approach for Determining the Number of Kanbans: A Step towards Non-Stock Production in Manufacturing Scenario

Sudhakara S.

Vol 3 , Issue 1 , January - March 2015 | Pages: 195-199 | Research Paper

https://doi.org/10.51976/ijari.311534

Received: February 05, 2015 | Revised: February 10, 2015 | Accepted: February 28, 2015 | Published Online: March 15, 2015

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1. * Sudhakara S., Department of Mechanical Engineering, ITM University, Gurgaon, Haryana, India (sudhakar.12@live.com)

Just-in-time (JIT) production is a philosophy that calls for reducing work-in-process (WIP) inventory to aid process improvement and reduce process variability. Kanban act as the nerve of a JIT production system whose functions is to direct materials just-in-time to workstations in stages of manufacturing, and pass information as to what and how much to produce. Indeed, the number of kanbans between two adjacent workstations decides the inventory level of that pair of workstations. With the objective of minimizing WIP inventory level, is developed for deciding the optimum number of kanbans. In the present work the mathematical model for calculating optimum number of kanbans and solution procedure are illustrated with a numerical example.

Keywords

Work In Process; Kanban System

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