In cooperation with Mr. Helmuth Gienke we will continuously provide to you interesting articles for free. In these "Articles of the Month" we will write about topics like"Lean Production, Kanban, Toyota Production System, Kaizen, logistics, etc.". For our first article we have chosen the theme: Kanban - motives and objectives The current article...
Poralu Marine, located in Port (France), is one of the world leaders in the field of docks and marina equipment. The company has implemented our electronic Kanban system IKS (description en francais: Système Kanban électronique) to support their pull processes to external suppliers. The IKS system will send Kanban signals to...
BOS GmbH – Best of Steel, Germanys market leader for steel frames and material containers, has implemented the e-Kanban system IKS of manufactus successfully. The company, located in Emsdetten (Germany), has started with a manual Kanban system some months ago and got the first positive effects of a Pull system. Now...
Some of the leading ERP/MRP systems like SAP, Oracle etc. offer so called "Kanban Modules" or "Kanban Management Tools" that are integrated in their suites. Evaluation of all functionality details of different systems is very difficult. Nevertheless we would like to present a generic comparison based on information which we got...
A customer has sent us a great video! The video shows how an A4 Kanban card can be folded perfectly to put it on the Kanban container. Here you will find the video about "perfect folding of a Kanban card".
The case study of our first IKS customer in Germany is now available in English language. Or you can download the e-Kanban article in PDF format under e-Kanban case Study Sunrise Medical.
Andreas Rupp GmbH, located in Eppingen-Rohrbach (Germany), has decided to support the existing manual Kanban system by the Kanban software IKS of manufactus and to realize an electronic Kanban system. The first objective is the planning and scheduling of the molding machines via IKS Kanban Board, that will replace the existing...
Rotex Heating Systems GmbH, a 100% subsidiary of Daikin Europe NV, located in Gueglingen (Germany), uses the e-Kanban system IKS since end of 2011. manufactus has implemented IKS in a one week project for a first production line. For this production line the Kanban orders are visualized and scheduled via the...
