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2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
11. Synchro MRP
Author : Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Hermann Lödding
Published in: Handbook of Manufacturing Control
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Abstract
Synchro MRP combines a centralized production planning and control with the decentralized Kanban System. The method was developed by the Japanese enterprise Yamaha with the intention of transferring the advantages of Kanban to a manufacturing environment characterized by frequently modified and changing products as well as by a large number of variants. Manufacturing environments such as these are generally more typical in many industries than that of the original Toyota production system. Synchro MRP became known primarily through publications by Hall [Hall-86*]. The method functions similarly to a Two-Card Kanban. A workstation, however, is only allowed to reproduce a variant if the planned output of that variant is not yet attained. The planned output per variant is given in the daily production program.