What Is Kanban and What Will This Training Give You?UntitledOrigins, Principles and Practical Skills
Kanban training in the United Kingdom is a practical, one-day skills programme that teaches you to manage workflow with a visual, pull-based system used across both manufacturing and knowledge work. The word Kanban means signboard or visual signal in Japanese, and the method began on the factory floor of the Toyota Production System, where Taiichi Ohno designed it in the 1950s to trigger production only in response to real downstream demand. You will learn how Kanban makes Just-in-Time (JIT) pull production work, why overproduction is the costliest form of waste, and how the same thinking was adapted for software, IT and service teams by David J. Anderson. The course spans manufacturing Kanban, covering production and withdrawal cards, supermarkets and kanban sizing, and knowledge-work Kanban, covering boards, work-in-progress limits, flow metrics and the cumulative flow diagram. Designed for professionals in UK manufacturing, technology, financial services and the public sector, the programme is hands-on throughout. It is practical rather than assessment-based, so you apply the concepts through design exercises and leave with a course completion record from Invensis Learning and skills you can use the next working day.










