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Production Flow Between Workstations Using the Kanban and DBR Methods – Comparative Study

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Advances in Manufacturing III (MANUFACTURING 2022)

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Enterprises are constantly looking for methods and tools that will make them more efficient and competitive. The choice of good practice should be consistent with the individual goal of the enterprise. There is no one golden mean, as the dynamics and predictability of enterprises differ. It is very important to be consistent with the changes introduced, to keeping priorities and to be motivated to maintain them. The aim of the study is to present a comparison of two methods of organizing the production flow between workplaces, considering the management concepts under which methods were developed. This comparison includes the Kanban method (from Lean Manufacturing) used in the analyzed enterprise against using the Drum-Buffer-Rope method (from Theory of Constraints) instead of Kanban. The study presents, among other things, the similarities and differences between the methods in this comparative study. In addition, the scientific article contains proposals for further simulation studies of the application of the DBR versus Kanban method.

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This research was funded by a grant from the Ministry of Education and Science received by the Bialystok University of Technology, grant number WZ/WIZ-INZ/3/2019.

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    Klaudia Tomaszewska

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  1. Department of Production Engineering, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

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    Marta Grabowska

  3. Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Maribor, Kranj, Slovenia

    Damjan Maletič

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Tomaszewska, K. (2022). Production Flow Between Workstations Using the Kanban and DBR Methods – Comparative Study. In: Hamrol, A., Grabowska, M., Maletič, D. (eds) Advances in Manufacturing III. MANUFACTURING 2022. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-00218-2_19

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