Research the Impact of the Electronic Kanban System on the Performance of Manufacturing Processes Developed With the Digital Transformation Approach

Abstract

In this research, it is to provide a more accurate and realistic follow-up of the production process with manual cards in an electronic environment. In this way, it is aimed to fulfill the requirements of the Industry 4.0 approach existing within the company. For this purpose, a system called "Electronic Kanban" has been developed in the scope of the study, with the digital transformation approach, where products can be followed more easily and instantly compared to the kanban method. This developed system has been adapted to Çilek Furniture production system. With this system, which was developed and started to be implemented, the cycle times of the modules, the completion status of the parts, the processing time, their routes, the wastage and missing materials were made visible. The process of creating kanban files and cards and the possibility of errors related to this have been completely eliminated. In this way, the performance of the production process has been increased by providing significant savings in time and cost in the production process. At the same time, an infrastructure was created for the module tracking system, which is planned to be built with artificial intelligence in the future.