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The Kanban Calculator can help you improve performance and reduce waste cost.

Whether you are trying to determine the capacity for one machine or a plant full of machines and no matter if the period of measurement is for a week, a month or a year the Kanban Calculator can give you the information you need to improve your production process.

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The Kanban Calculator can help you improve performance and reduce waste cost.
	Efficiency	Optimize Runtime
	Capacity Planning	What-IF Scenarios
	Scheduling	Inventory Management
	Manpower Planning	Generate Kanban Cards
	Overtime	Financial Impact
	Also comes with Plantwide Presentation or Powerpoint to tell how the system works.

Whether you are trying to determine the capacity for one machine or a plant full of machines
and no matter if the period of measurement is for a week, a month or a year the Kanban Calculator
can give you the information you need to improve your production process.

Let’s take a look a some sample data screens in the Kanban Calculator and see what they
offer you. After viewing these screen you can download your own demo version of the
Kanban Calculator and enter your own data.

The first step is to establish the period of measurement.
	The second step in the process is to set up the machines to be measured in the Kanban Calculator.

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Under the parts tab you enter all the information relative to the parts to be run on the machine
during the measurement period.

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Based on the information you have entered the Kanban Calculator will calculate:
	Run Time Labor Hours	Inventory Cost
	Setup Labor Hours	Required Run/Setup Manning
	Total Labor Hours	Shifts Required
	Setup Labor Cost

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The Kanban Calculator graphically depicts capacity requirements to meet production demand
for the period specified. Shifts needed on the vertical axis and Days of Inventory running on the horizontal axis. Green means everything is OK. Red means capacity issues.

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Based on the previous information you have entered the Kanban Calculator will calculate for you:
	The number of Kanban Cards in Green	Setup Status "Setting up Longer than Running"
	The number of Kanban Cards in red	Inventory valuation warnings
	Prints Kanban Cards	If you can meet required ship frequency for each part

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The Run Data Tab let’s you review the data you have entered and calculates necessary value for each part.

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The Plant Tab provides a summary of the total plant requirements to run all the parts on all the machines loaded into the Kanban Calculator for the period specified, or you can choose the machines you want to calculate.

The Kanban Calculator provides a variety of reports and graphs to help you monitor the production process and quickly make needed adjustments. You also can do What-If Scenarios to see how it affects the machine capacity. Like reducing setup times, or improving efficiency.