| -link"> | | | | method is not created by paper (or card) kanban |
| Lean Manufacturing Article in Industry 2.0 by | | | | instructions that result in lost orders, duplicated |
| Contributing Editor TR Cutler | | | | orders, or supplier confusion. Constant breakdowns in |
| The February issue of Industry 2.0 (available on line | | | | information flow are a common problem in the |
| at includes a feature article by contributing editor, | | | | manufacturing sector. While there may be no obvious |
| Thomas R. Cutler about Kanban. Thomas R. Cutler, | | | | connection between Digital Kanban and Linux, |
| who founded the Manufacturing Media Consortium in | | | | according to Justin Diana, Vice-President of Datacraft |
| 1999, has grown the participation from 300 journalists | | | | Solutions, Linux makes better economic sense to |
| to more than two thousands key clients, journalists, | | | | develop or run a digital kanban solution versus |
| editors, trendsetters, and key business leaders | | | | Windows. According to Diana, There is a |
| worldwide. Cutler has authored more than 1000 | | | | paradigm shift in the investment and development |
| articles for a wide range of manufacturing periodicals, | | | | community relative to open source |
| industrial publications, and business journals including | | | | technologies. The benefits that come from a global |
| most of the leading monthly trade publications. Cutler | | | | base of developers have made many of the open |
| is the author of The Manufacturers’ Public | | | | source technologies move to the forefront in many |
| Relations and Media Guide. Cutler was voted #1 | | | | application areas. |
| Manufacturing Journalist for the third year in a row. | | | | Industry 2.0 is published monthly. With a controlled |
| The firm has forty-two employees worldwide. TR | | | | circulation base of 30,000, more than two hundred |
| Cutler, Inc., ( is the nation's largest manufacturing | | | | thousand monthly readers across India have relied up |
| marketing and public relations firm, based in Fort | | | | this vital publication since 2002. Covering twenty |
| Lauderdale, Florida. | | | | industry sectors, Industry 2.0 reaches key |
| Reducing lead times through detailed flow techniques | | | | decision-makers. 65% of the publications readers are |
| is the concept of a kanban system with a | | | | managing directors, CEO’s, vice presidents and |
| push manufacturing environment. IT managers | | | | other senior executives. |
| are asked to develop methods for implementation of | | | | TR Cutler, Inc. |
| digital kanban systems, because a leaner production | | | | |