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語源

From Japanese 看板 (かんばん, ​kanban), from 看 (kan, “visible”) + 板 (“board または card”), developed and first used in the Toyota Production System.

発音

• (米国発音) enPR: ˈkän-ˌbän
• IPA^(key): /ˈkanban/

名詞

kanban (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 kanbans または kanban)

1. (countable) A card containing a set of manufacturing specifications and requirements, used to regulate the supply of components. [from 1980s]
   • 1986, David J. Lu (transl.), Japan Management Association, editor, Kanban Just-in Time at Toyota: Management Begins at the Workplace, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 93:

     The sub-assembly line assembles A. It goes to processing line 1 to withdraw part a, and for this purpose it must take the sub-assembly kanban (called withdrawal kanban). It goes to store a, withdraws boxes in the required quantity and removes those kanban (called in-process kanban または production-ordering kanban) that are attached to the boxes.

2. A coordinated manufacturing system using such cards.
   • 1994, Yasuhiro Monden, Toyota Production System: An Integrated Approach to Just-In-Time, Chapman & Hall, →ISBN, page 51:

     However, since so many Japanese industries have adopted Kanban, this problem is diminishing.

3. (by extension) A system to manage, visualise, and improve work across teams, often as part of an agile methodology. [from 2000s]

   kanban board

   • 2014, Joakim Sunden; Marcus Hammarberg, Kanban in Action‎^[1], Manning, →ISBN:

     The first thing that often differentiates a daily standup in a kanban team from other standup meetings is that a kanban team tends to focus on the work on the board rather than on the individual people in the team.