Toyota's Six Rules For Kanban

Toyota team has created six significant rules (Toyota’s Six Rules for Kanban) which guide Kanban
practitioners from the past to today.

1. Each consumer process dispatches demands (bins and Kanban cards) to its supplier processes
after it consumes its materials.
2. Each supplier process manufactures and delivers in association with the amount and sequence
of incoming demands.
3. Items are neither manufactured nor delivered without a pending demand.
4. The request (Kanban card) related to an item (bin) is always connected to it.
5. Supplier processes must adhere to the highest standards of quality assurance to guarantee that
the delivered products are defect-free.
6. Limiting the number of pending demands makes a process more delicate and reveals potential
inefficiencies to be addressed.