Hey everyone, welcome to the activity solution to identify the Kanban system. As advised in the previous lecture, you are given three scenarios. Your job is to identify if those scenarios qualify as Kanban system. I hope you have completed the exercise with correct response. Let's now review the solutions. Situation one, you are using a Sony Handycam The camera has a battery indicator.
When the indicator is green in color, the battery of the handycam is full. When the indicator turns amber or red indicates you have to charge the batteries of your handycam is this an example of Kanban system? The answer to this question is yes. It is definitely an example of a Kanban system. You are recharging the handycam batteries when the indicator reflects that the current battery has been drained situation to You have recently installed a device that detects if there is a need to clean your water tank. When the water tank needs cleaning, it sends a message to your mobile phone.
And this you can get the water tank cleaned at the right time. Is this also an example of the Kanban system? The answer to this question is also Yes. In the early days before these sophisticated devices were introduced in the market, we would have a regime of regularly cleaning water tanks, we had no way of knowing if it indeed needed any cleaning. So we followed the generally recommended and probably inaccurate schedule for cleaning the tank. That's the push system.
But now there is a device that when installed indicates when the water tanks should be cleaned. This is indeed a classic example of the Kanban system. In fact, the internet of things that we have been hearing about so far is mostly based on carbon pool and just in time system. Wow. Situation three, you're working in a manufacturing organization. your workstation has a number of small parts required to assemble a unit of a product.
You have recently reached the minimum inventory levels of ball bearings kept at your workstation. This you fill out a card with required details of which ball bearings need to be replenished and the desired quantity this card is picked up by the vendor and the needed stock is replenished. Is this an example of Kanban system? The answer is yes. This is a classic Kanban example of any manufacturing environment. raw materials are replenished with the help of Kanban cards when they reach the minimum inventory levels.
That brings us to the end of this lecture. Thank you for attending. See you in the next one.