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Publisher's Message -- Getting Started -- The Purpose of This Book -- The Basis of This Book -- Two Ways to Use This Book -- How to Get the Most Out of Your Reading -- An Overview of the Contents -- Chapter. Introducing Key Terms and Benefits of Kanban -- What Is Kanban? -- The Pull System and Waste Reduction -- What Will Make Kanban Successful? -- Integrating Kanban with MRPII -- Pilot or Plantwide Implementation -- How Will Kanban Change What You Are Doing Now? -- What Are the Benefits of Kanban? -- Kanban and Your Company -- Kanban and You -- In Conclusion -- Summary -- Reflections -- Chapter 2. The Basics of Kanban: Functions, Rules, and Types of Kanban -- The Differences Between Kanban and Conventional Ordering Systems -- Reordering Point Method and Kanban -- Production Work Orders and Kanban -- MRP II -- A Summary of Push versus Pull -- Functions of Kanban -- To Serve as the Autonomic Nervous System for Just-in-Time Production -- To Improve and Strengthen the Factory -- Rules of Kanban -- Rule 1: Downstream Processes Withdraw Items -- Upstream Processes -- Rule 2: Upstream Processes Produce Only What Has Been Withdrawn -- Rule 3: Only 100 Percent Defect-Free Products Are Sent to -- Next Process -- Rule 4: Level Production Must Be Established -- Rule 5: Kanbans Always Accompany the Parts Themselves -- Rule 6: The Number of Kanbans Is Decreased Gradually Over Time -- Types of Kanban -- Transport Kanbans -- Production Kanbans -- In Conclusion -- Summary -- Reflections -- Chapter 3. Phase One: Scheduling Kanban -- How Many Kanbans Do You Need? -- Takt Time -- How Many Operators Are Needed? -- Line Balancing -- Full Work -- Load Leveling or Smoothing-Heijunka -- Level Production Compared to Shish-Kabob Production -- In Conclusion -- Summary -- Reflections -- Chapter 4. Phase Two: Circulating Kanban -- When Do You Produce? -- What Do You Replenish? -- When Do You Pull? -- Where Can You Pull From? -- What Do You Pull? -- What Belongs on a Kanban Card? -- How Do You Attach Kanban Cards? -- Steps for Circulating Kanbans -- Rules for Circulating Kanbans -- Rules for Transport with Kanbans -- Supermarkets -- Water Beetles and Milk Runs -- In Conclusion -- Summary -- Reflections -- Chapter 5. Phase Three: Improving with Kanban -- Fine-Tuning Production by Reducing Kanbans -- Kanban Highlights Abnormalities -- Reducing Kanbans Reduces Stock -- Kanban As a Visual Control System -- What Is the Essence of Control? -- Five Important Steps in Creating Visual Controls -- Triangle Kanban -- Other Types of Kanbans -- Kanban and Suppliers -- In Conclusion -- Summary -- Reflections -- Chapter 6. Reflections and Conclusions -- A Kanban Implementation Summary -- Reflecting on What You've Learned -- Opportunities for Further Learning -- Conclusions -- Additional Resources Related to Kanban -- Books and Videos -- Newsletters -- Training and Consulting -- Website -- About the Productivity Press Development Team.