Kanban System and Calculation of Kanban Production in Stamping Division of PT. XYZ

Abstract

This far, the development of Japan industry has grown rapidly in the world. The automotive industry is one of the industry which play the important role in Indonesia, especially in transportation sector. Almost in automotive companies familiar with Toyota Production System method. The problem come up when the production planning use forecasting method, then the amount of the inventory will cause a lot of reject products and need a lot of storage spaces. One of the solution can solve this problem is the production planning department should control and monitor the number of kanban requirement to complete the task job. When the production planning fix the kanban number, then key performance index perform better. The purpose of this study is to calculate the amount of kanban for each line of production, then this calculation will reduce waste and increases the production capacity.