Kanban Cards at Montie Gear

We use Kanban cards at Montie Gear to manage our inventory.  The purpose of the cards is to make sure we don’t run out of inventory so we have the products you want, when you want them.  Kanban is a way to use a simple formula to determine how much product to keep on hand by using customer demand and the time it takes to produce the product.  You can hear more about Kanban cards at:

How Lean Manufacturing Helps Us Serve Customers Better

 

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Montie Gear is Transforming into a Lean Manufacturer

Lean Shipping Desk

Designing and making products is something we really enjoy at Montie Gear.  We serve you (our customers and our vendors) by pursuing manufacturing and operations excellence.  What does “manufacturing and operations excellence” mean?  Operations excellence means that you receive exactly the product you want quickly.  It also means that our vendors get paid on time.  When this happens it is a win-win-win for you, Montie Gear contributors, and our vendors.  Lean is all about continuously working to eliminate the 7 wastes

1. Defects
2. Overproduction
3. Transportation
4. Waiting
5. Inventory
6. Motion
7. Overprocessing

Check out our first lean video showing where we are today in our Lean journey as part of our continuous work to server YOU (our customers) better.  Click on the picture to watch the video.

As always, comments and suggestions are welcome!

Montie
montie@montie.com

 

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