Industrial and Systems Engineering Professor Emeritus Rajan Suri recently published a new book, The Practitioner’s Guide to POLCA: The Production Control System for High‐Mix, Low‐Volume and Custom Products.
POLCA, an acronym for paired-cell overlapping loops of cards with authorization, is a system for managing flow of jobs in a manufacturing setting. Suri created the methodology through his work with the Center for Quick Response Manufacturing, which he founded and directed from 1993 to 2007.