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Andon is an visual system that helps industries show workers and supervisors what happens in real-time with their production process. The Andon system emerged from lean manufacturing practices especially the Toyota Production System (TPS) to help workers and supervisors spot production problems right when they happen.
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The word Andon has been derived from the Japanese word Lantern. It is basically a system that notifies maintenance, managerial and other works of quality or process problem. Andon is a key component of lean manufacturing and is used to understand the problems. TOYOTA production System was used Andon. Andon can be considered as the real time visual indicator focusing on issues with the specific goal of finding long-term solutions to solve them as they arise. Andon is a lean approach to better handling production-related problems.
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