Planning and implementing POLCA: A card-based control system for high variety or custom engineered products

Production Planning and Control

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 596-610

  Krishnamurthy, Ananth ^a   Suri, Rajan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Kanban pull; Material control; MRP push; POLCA

Indexed keywords

CUSTOM PRODUCTS; CUSTOM-ENGINEERED PRODUCTS; EMPLOYEE SATISFACTION; HYBRID PUSH-PULL; KANBAN-PULL; LEADTIME; MATERIAL CONTROL; MRP-PUSH; ON-TIME DELIVERY; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; POLCA; PRACTICAL ISSUES; PULL SYSTEMS; QUICK RESPONSE MANUFACTURING; SHOP FLOOR;

CELL MEMBRANES;

INDUSTRIAL PLANTS;

EID: 70349634141     PISSN: 09537287     EISSN: 13665871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09537280903034297     Document Type: Article

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