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Danahar Corporation

Danaher Corporation specializes in designing, manufacturing, and marketing industrial items to out side vendors. Their instruments are used for measurements, displays, and controls. The company consists of three main component, the professional, industrial, and tools. The main source of business comes from the Danaher sensors and control, which is a leading manufacturer of process and environmental controls. The company is a strong believer in lean manufacturing, which in other terms means they want to produce their products the easiest and straight to the point way. They try to cut the non productive time in making their products. The Danaher Corporation feels that movement towards the lean manufactures would use waste reduction to improve processes and to keep the rate of inventory usage low, reduce working capital, and fulfill orders faster and precise.

The man in charge of this diligent task to keep the division lean is the Vice president of supply chain management Tom Mathis. The pervious method used by Danaher Corporation is derived from the Japanese word "Kanban", which means sign or signboard. The company preferred this method over the usual Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP) system. The kanban system was basically a simple system in which companies could use to reorder products when inventory is running low. They would place a card in front of the storage bins to symbolize what products in the bin needed to be replenished and for what company it needed to go out to. The cards would be handled by an individual named a pacer. The pacer hand delivers stacks of card to the factory buyers, whom in return would start the order process by writing down their orders. The only problem with the kanban system was the disappearance of cards due to negligence and carelessness. At least one percent of inventory was lost daily, which resulted in customers not receiving their right order and production counts not being precise. The production suffers...

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