Just in Time in Manufacturing Industries
Just In Time in Manufacturing Industries Just-in-Time concept, known as the Japanese Kanban system was introduced by Toyota Corporation in the early 1970s. In the early 1980’s the concept of “Zero Inventories” was introduced to the American Manufacturing Industry. ... Use of JIT in manufacturing industry: Lowers inventory costs, increases space, reduces risk of obsolesce, provides higher quality and reduces response time to cost. (Shepherd, 1993), (David, Larry, Russell, 2002) The concept of JIT was mainly adopted by the manufacturing industry to do the process right the first time and to eliminate any non-value added activities. ... The initial stage of JIT generates reduction in work in process inventory in the manufacturing industries. ... MRP is not needed because parts are to be delivered to the manufacturing location at the time they are needed without any excessive handling or storage. ... 1995) Another important part of JIT in the manufacturing system involves long-term contractual relationships to be established with the vendors/suppliers. ... Quality is part of manufacturing process, thus JIT stresses more on the quality of product before it is started and after it is finished. ... (Green, Amenkheinan, Johnson, 1991) The third stage, Global management philosophy, affects every aspect of the manufacturing environment. ... JIT has been used in wide variety of industries in today’s world, such as automobiles, consumer electronics, office equipment and electrical equipment. ... , Black and Decker, Omark Industries, Hewlett-Packard, Goodyear, Harley-Davidson, Motorola, AT&T, Xerox, Intel, Borg Warner, Dynatork, Shea Manufacturing, Westinghouse, John Deere, A-P Parts, Day Co. ... (Funk, 1995) In the automotive industry JIT has become an integral part to improve quality of the product and manufacturing techniques. ... (Chen, Chung, Gupta, 1994) As mentioned earlier Toyota Motor Corporation is the founder of the Just in Time manufacturing system and it continues to practice this system in its own company.