Originally developed for Toyota Automotive, the Kanban method is a visual task organizing system that breaks tasks up into three different categories – to do, in progress and completed.

Investopedia / Jiaqi Zhou Kanban is an inventory control system used in just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing. It was developed by Taiichi Ohno, an industrial engineer at Toyota, and takes its name ...

{rofessional organizer Di Ter Avest tells us that Kanban, literally meaning signboard in Japanese, was originally developed by an industrial engineer at Toyota as a production system in Japan.

Toyota essentially invented modern auto assembly with its "kanban" system for notifying suppliers of what parts are needed where and when to minimize inventory. "Kanban" means signboard in ...