In 2010, a POLCA-scan took place to assess the suitability of POLCA within the assembly department of Variass Veendam. To reduce variability, an overview of the inter-cell traffic between several cells was designed. Eventually, a schematic overview with the most important POLCA-loops was established. These POLCA-loops capture 91% of all order flows.

Since the variety of products, production times and production routings are too high to just use POLCA as it is, the design team of Variass made adjustments to make POLCA fit for their purpose. They decided to link POLCA cards to cells instead of different POLCA loops. In addition, it was chosen to use one central POLCA board, centrally located and accessible to all cells. The information on this central POLCA board helps to make sequencing and dispatching decisions in the cells and provides information about the staffing within each cell. A combination of this information helps the production manager to decide whether it is necessary to move employees from one cell to another. The figure below shows the central bulletin board which indicates staffing information along with POLCA cards indicating the need for jobs. The manager is pointing to the number of workers in a particular cell.