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The Practitioner's Guide to POLCA

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

The Practitioner's Guide to POLCA

By Rajan Suri

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POLCA (Paired-cell Overlapping Loops of Cards with Authorization) is a card-based visual control system that manages the flow of jobs through the shop floor: at each operation, it controls which job should be worked on next to meet delivery targets. POLCA ensures that upstream operations use their capacity effectively by working on jobs that are needed downstream, while at the same time preventing excessive work-in-process (WIP) build-ups when bottlenecks appear unexpectedly.POLCA is particularl...Show more

Production and quality control management

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9781138210646

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Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published year

2018

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The Practitioner's Guide to POLCA

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Hardcover

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