The Practitioner's Guide to Polca: The Production Control System for High-Mix, Low-Volume and Custom Products

by Rajan Suri

POLCA stands for Paired-cell Overlapping Loops of Cards with Authorization. This system combines the best features of MRP and Kanban systems while overcoming their drawbacks for low-volume production. It includes novel features that are specifically designed to enable consistent delivery performance for high-mix/low-volume production. Finally, the crowning aspect of POLCA is that it is simple and yet remarkably effective: it is a visual card-based...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138210641
• ISBN13: 9781138210646
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Productivity Press
• Length: 436 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.0" x 10.1"