JP Patil is Director of Strategic Initiatives at Digite, where he focuses on trying to understand how people work and how to help them get things done faster and with higher quality. There has been a ...

Kanban is a Japanese word, and the methodology it describes was conceived by Toyota for its production floor. Its origins are in manufacturing, but it has since been adopted in software development ...

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AUSTIN, TEXAS – For many years, lean manufacturing principles have shaped operations on factory floors, yet the physical tools employed to implement these strategies are quickly becoming outdated.

In my last post I discussed a service, Open HUB, that’s invaluable for finding and researching free, open source software (FOSS). In that post I searched, as an example, for a Kanban solution. One of ...

Traditional kanban systems give simple signals to suppliers that materials required to keep production lines running at optimum speeds have to be restocked. This usually means a pull approach to ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. As marketers, we all know that web content in its myriad forms is one of the most valuable conversion tools we have. The problem is that ...

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During a mid-1900s visit to the United States, Japanese industrial engineer Taiichi Ohno noted that a supermarket chain kept its shelves stocked with just the right amount of each product to allow ...

A factory that produces car parts sold by Bosch Fahrzeugelektrik in Eisenach, Germany, is using RFID-based kanban cards to speed its production process and better manage customer orders. Started as a ...