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カンバン対応も可能

English translation: Kanban System/Card (Compatible)

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Japanese term or phrase:カンバン対応も可能
English translation:Kanban System/Card (Compatible)
Entered by: Joyce A

12:47 Aug 29, 2010
Japanese to English translations [PRO]
Business/Commerce (general)
Japanese term or phrase: カンバン対応も可能
The whole sentence is:
弊社でストックを持ち、場合によってはカンバン対応も可能

I understand the meaning of カンバン but it's not gelling right in the translation. I'm wondering if this has some special idiomatic meaning.

Thanks!
Joyce A
Thailand
Local time: 16:03
Kanban System/Card (Compatible)
Explanation:
In manufacturing and logistics, the Japanese word Kanban has been adopted to mean a tool (a card that contains very specific information for reordering and replenishing materials or transferring finished goods between internal departments). Such a system reduces overall inventory and batch size by pulling only what is necessary from a "supermarket" (a small supply of parts) placed between the POU (point of use) and the next upstream process. This system originated in the Just-In-Time production system devises by Toyota, sometimes call the Toyota Production System, or Lean Manufacturing, and has been implemented to varying degrees in most manufacturing companies.
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David Higbee
United States
Local time: 02:03
Grading comment
Thank you, David. Actually, I was going for Yuki's answer until I saw conejo's emphatic disagree. I learned something new.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +5Just-In-Time system
Yuki Okada
5 +2Kanban System/Card (Compatible)
David Higbee
4Billboard size available
Dave Ottley
4[we] also respond to requirements of the just-in-time stock system
Soonthon LUPKITARO(Ph.D.)


  

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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Billboard size available


Explanation:
I don't have the background to this source text, but I assume that it is a printer (of marketing materials) who is telling its client that it can make a really LARGE (read, billboard size) print if the situation permits.

I would translate the whole sentence as:

We carry (paper) stock, and can blow your image up to billboard size in some cases.

Because of the grammar of the sentence, it doesn't match my suggested term exactly, but the meaning and nuance i the same.

I hope you like my answer.

Dave Ottley
United States
Local time: 04:03
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in VietnameseVietnamese
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thank you, Dave. :-)

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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
Just-In-Time system


Explanation:
This refers to Kanban method, or Just In Time method. "We are happy to work on a Just-In-Time basis..."

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ジャストインタイム生産システム

Yuki Okada
Canada
Local time: 02:03
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in JapaneseJapanese
PRO pts in category: 138
Notes to answerer
Asker: Hi, Yuki. Your answer was so helpful to me. I thank you very much. (I used it in my translation.) Conejo's disagree actually made me change my mind to go to "Kanban." I wish I could give you both points.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  izziS
55 mins
agree  Junko F
1 hr
agree  Gertraud K.
1 hr
agree  casey
16 hrs
agree  Glenn Anderson
16 hrs
agree  crossroad
1 day 2 hrs
disagree  conejo: The "kanban card system" is a specific system. "Kanban" is not the same as the JIT system; it is something that is used with the JIT system.
1 day 4 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
[we] also respond to requirements of the just-in-time stock system


Explanation:
Kanban=just-in-time

Example sentence(s):
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Soonthon LUPKITARO(Ph.D.)
Thailand
Local time: 16:03
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Thai
PRO pts in category: 8
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thank you for your input, Khun Soonthon!

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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Kanban System/Card (Compatible)


Explanation:
In manufacturing and logistics, the Japanese word Kanban has been adopted to mean a tool (a card that contains very specific information for reordering and replenishing materials or transferring finished goods between internal departments). Such a system reduces overall inventory and batch size by pulling only what is necessary from a "supermarket" (a small supply of parts) placed between the POU (point of use) and the next upstream process. This system originated in the Just-In-Time production system devises by Toyota, sometimes call the Toyota Production System, or Lean Manufacturing, and has been implemented to varying degrees in most manufacturing companies.


    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban
    Reference: http://www.strategosinc.com/kanban_1.htm
David Higbee
United States
Local time: 02:03
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Thank you, David. Actually, I was going for Yuki's answer until I saw conejo's emphatic disagree. I learned something new.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Julian Rippon: The Kanban card system is one of the tools that can be used in a just-in-time (JIT) system, but is not the JIT system in itself. It simplifies the flow of information between a customer/supplier pair. Kanban is now a common English term in manufacturing.
16 hrs
  -> ありがとうございます！
agree  conejo: Yes definitely. The "kanban card" system is something that is used in some Japanese transplant manufacturers in the US as well.
1 day 2 hrs
  -> ありがとう！
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