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Digitally Enhancing Kanban Lean Practice in Support of Just-in-Time Reconfigurable Supply: A Case Study

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This paper explores the benefits of digitally enhancing Kanban Lean practice in support of Just-in-Time (JIT) reconfigurable supply processes for increased efficiency and reliability. Ensuring JIT-supply of raw materials and parts is essential to achieve Lean production and reduce inventory storage and capital tied up in unprocessed inventory. After a literature positioning, this research work highlights the importance for the industry, more than ever before, to build reliable and reconfigurable supply chains to easier the absorption of demand diversification while using different raw materials and parts at the beginning of their production flows. Kanban, as a solid JIT approach with visual signaling, is still a suitable Lean lever to activate given demand diversification, however, some limits are observed when using physical Kanban cards in a mass-customization context and the Industry 4.0 era. Hence, this work aims to analyze the usefulness of Digital Kanban Systems (DKSs) in support of demand diversification absorption that will increase the reliability of production lines and supply chains.

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This research work was supported by the project BEST of the University of Bordeaux, France. The funding has been granted by Work Package (WP) 2 dealing with the “Design of Autonomous, Mobile, and Reconfigurable Industrial Systems”. The authors would like to thank the leader and co-leader of the WP2.

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    Christina Papadimitropoulou & Anne Zouggar Amrani

  2. SINTEF Manufacturing, Trondheim, Norway

    Daryl Powell

  3. University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

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  4. Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City, Mexico

    David Romero

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Papadimitropoulou, C., Amrani, A.Z., Powell, D., Macedo, H., Romero, D. (2023). Digitally Enhancing Kanban Lean Practice in Support of Just-in-Time Reconfigurable Supply: A Case Study. In: Alfnes, E., Romsdal, A., Strandhagen, J.O., von Cieminski, G., Romero, D. (eds) Advances in Production Management Systems. Production Management Systems for Responsible Manufacturing, Service, and Logistics Futures. APMS 2023. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 689. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43662-8_6

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