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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024kan•ban (kän′bän′),USA pronunciation n. - Businessa method of inventory control, originally developed in Japanese automobile factories, that keeps inventories low by scheduling needed goods and equipment to arrive a short time before a production run begins.
- Middle Chinese, equivalent. to Chinese kàn look + bǎn printing block
- Japanese kamban literally, signboard, shopkeeper's in-business sign, probably alluding to the shop or tavern keeper's final call for orders before taking the sign down, hence "last-minute, just in time'' in the context of inventory control
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: kanban Japanese: /ˈkænbæn/ n - a just-in-time manufacturing process in which the movements of materials through a process are recorded on specially designed cards
- any of the cards used for ordering materials in such a system
Etymology: literally: advertisement hoarding |