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The Practitioner's Guide to POLCA - The Production Control System for High-Mix, Low-Volume and Custom Products (Hardcover)
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The Practitioner's Guide to POLCA - The Production Control System for High-Mix, Low-Volume and Custom Products (Hardcover)
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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 particularly suited to
companies manufacturing high-mix, low-volume and customized
products. Such companies struggle with long lead times, late
deliveries, and daily expediting to meet delivery dates. ERP
systems are not designed to deal with this highly variable
environment, and add-on software such as Finite Capacity Scheduling
systems can require complex installation. Also, the Kanban system
does not work well with low-volume or custom production. POLCA has
delivered impressive results in such environments. It does not
require any complex software implementation: it can be used without
an ERP system or it can seamlessly complement an existing ERP
system. This book: Provides a step-by-step roadmap on how to
implement POLCA; invaluable for both companies that wish to
implement POLCA as well as consultants and academics advising such
companies. Explains the concepts in practical and
easy-to-understand terms by showing detailed shop-floor examples.
Includes more than 100 illustrations for understanding how POLCA
works as well as for elaborating on details of the implementation
steps. Contains case studies written by company owners and
executives documenting their POLCA implementation process and the
results achieved in various industries in six countries.
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