All About Pull Production: Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Kanban, CONWIP, and other Pull Systems in Lean Production

Author(s):  
Daryl John Powell
Author(s):  
Eduardo Guilherme Satolo ◽  
Milena Estanislau Diniz Mansur dos Reis ◽  
Robisom Damasceno Calado

This chapter aims to organize knowledge about pull production systems by presenting the underlying concepts of lean manufacturing as for its origin, principles, and relations with PPC. Pull production is one the fundamental principles of lean manufacturing, and its implementation can bring positive impacts. For such a purpose, sequential and mixed supermarket pull systems stand out in which the integration between pull production systems and PPC and its various levels is a main subject of discussion. The JIT model or Kanban method and hybrid systems, such as conwip and lung-drum-string theory, are mechanisms for managing pull production systems. Finally, a pull production system implementation is presented for illustration purposes. At the end of this chapter, it is expected that skills are developed by readers, which are going to assist them in using the tools presented to model production systems and aid decision-making processes.


2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (03) ◽  
pp. 105-116
Author(s):  
Khairul Hassan ◽  
Hiroyuki Kajiwara

Shipbuilding is a convoluted process. The production system of a shipyard can be illustrated by using the concept of a pull production system. Lean is based on the principle of a pull production system. The shipbuilding process is improved significantly but the lean production system is introduced at very small scales. In a shipyard, different types of wastages such as scraps, overproductions, idle times, etc. are produced, lean is a just-in-time production system that can focus on the elimination of these wastages to ensure lower costs and lower production times and higher quality products as well as better service and delivery. Simulation modeling is used to evaluate the performance of the production system and kanban is a pull-type scheduling method that can be used to simulate the pull production system of a shipyard for the optimization analysis. The goals of this article are to identify the important wastages in a shipyard that can increase production time and cost, to design the production system of a shipyard based on lean philosophy, to derive the basic principles of the lean manufacturing as well as to develop the control mechanism of this production system, the simulation analysis of the production system done by using the lean principle, and to identify the limitations for applying the lean production system in a shipyard production.


2015 ◽  
pp. 18-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dario Fontana ◽  
Francesco Tuccino
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Author(s):  
M. M. Sabitova ◽  
Z. M. Berkheeva

An assessment was made of the possibility of using the principles of lean production in the occupational pathology service, which made it possible to identify solutions and develop a step-by-step plan for implementing the necessary actions for the transition to the target state.


2018 ◽  
Vol 113 (4) ◽  
pp. 203-206
Author(s):  
Kathrin Maassen ◽  
Miriam Zacharias ◽  
Nejat Gökpinar ◽  
Dominic Hepner ◽  
Frank Hart

2017 ◽  
Vol 112 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 506-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Schwarz ◽  
Markus Schmitt
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