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

by Rajan Suri

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,...

• 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"