From Elsmar Cove Quality Assurance and Business Standards Wiki
Kanban – A small card attached to boxes of parts that regulates pull by signaling upstream production and delivery.
Pulling a product through the production process. This method of manufacturing process-flow-control only allows movement of material by pulling from a preceding process. Inventory is kept low. Then quality errors are detected, there is less product affected.
Elsmar Cove Kanban discussion threads: Kanban discussion threads