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Featured Product: Sell VIBCO Railcar Vibrators This Month
Industry Focus: Chemical and Allied Products
Industry Focus: Flour Mills
"Talk the Talk" Lean Word: Kanban

Featured Product: VIBCO Railroad Car Vibrators

See how VIBCO Railcar Vibrators make unloading fast and safe.

Chemical and Allied Products

• Unloading Railroad Hopper Cars
• Bulk Storage Bins
• Tote Bins
• Blending, Screening, Separating & Sizing 
• Feeding Chutes
• Packaging and Compaction
• Filtering Liquid Chemicals (cake removal)
• Increasing flow of liquid chemicals through screens
• VIBCO Product Applications for Bulk Material Handling

Flour Mills

• Storage Hoppers and Bins
• Unloading raw materials from trucks and railcars
• Screens and Sifters
• Increasing Lading
• Packaging
• VIBCO Product Application Bulletins for Railcar Unloading

"Talk the Talk" Lean Manufacturing Word of the Week: Kanban

Kanban (literally signboard or billboard) is a scheduling system for lean and just-in-time (JIT) production.[2] Kanban is a system to control the logistical chain from a production point of view, and is not an inventory control system. Kanban was developed by Taiichi Ohno, at Toyota, to find a system to improve and maintain a high level of production. Kanban is one method through which JIT is achieved.[3]

Kanban became an effective tool in support of running a production system as a whole, and it proved to be an excellent way for promoting improvement. Problem areas were highlighted by reducing the number of kanban in circulation.

Learn more about VIBCO's Lean Manufacturing Program and Leadership