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Article #82Re: Demand Flow Technology
From: DDettmer
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 00:00
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 00:00
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In a message dated 98-08-11 11:36:09 EDT, Rick Weaver wrote:
<< I am looking for information or your personal experience with
the Demand Flow Technology. I gather it is similar to Kanban
production but I am not totally certain.
Anyone here have any experience with it? >>
[No, but it sounds a lot like constraint theory ("drum-buffer-rope"), but
probably without the buffer to safeguard against variability...]
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