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How Toyota's Kanban System Quietly Runs the World
Toyota's kanban system — the simple card-based pull system that revolutionized manufacturing — is now quietly running everything from hospital operating rooms to cloud computing pipelines. Lucas and Luna trace how a 1950s supermarket observation became the invisible operating system for modern production, why most companies implement it wrong, and the counterintuitive rule that makes it work: you're not allowed to produce anything without a card. Featuring the story of a Japanese auto parts plant that cut work-in-progress inventory by 87 percent, and a surprising example from a…
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