An exercise to simulate the use of the Kanban method
All you need to practice this simulation technique is to follow these steps
1. Select one production process requiring handling material in bundles.
2. Get some plastic coffee cups to represent Kanban boxes.
3. Prepare some pieces of paper to represent Kanban cards and put one in each cup.
4. Prepare a model of the target working area on a large piece of brown paper, mapping accurately the position of the sewing (or other) machines with set-up times written nearby
5. Simulate handling of materials and work-in-process by moving the cups from one workstation to the next. Optimize the procedure.