... manufacturers' supplier assessment practices, new product design and development practices, just‐in‐time practices, and quality practices. This study also identifies practices that share common variance‐covariance characteristics and to what extent the observed practices are linked to their underlying factors...

... in both luxury vehicle manufacture and specialty component manufacture and highlights the conditions under which batch production remains viable. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Lean production Just‐in‐time Batch production Skills The motor vehicle‐manufacturing industry has been transformed...

... components purchased by a company, the higher the implementation of JIT purchasing practices. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Just‐in‐time Purchasing Motor industry Parts Manufacturing Spain Since they became known world‐wide in the 1970s and 1980s, just‐in‐time (JIT) production systems...

...Mahmoud M. Yasin; Marwan A. Wafa; Michael H. Small The effective implementation of just‐in‐time (JIT) in the US public sector is examined in this empirical study. Specifically, the relationships between organizational modification efforts prior to JIT implementation, problems encountered during...

... the basis for what was to become known popularly as just‐in‐time (JIT). Up until this time the thrust of much of the analysis of Japanese production systems had focused on cultural differences and concluded that there was a particular Japanese “mindset” that facilitated their success. Schonberger (1982...

...Surendra M. Gupta; Yousef A.Y. Al‐Turki; Ronald F. Perry Just‐in‐time (JIT) systems were originally designed for deterministic production environments such as constant processing times and smooth and stable demand. However, once implemented, JIT is fraught with numerous types of uncertainties...

...David Upton The objective of this paper is to assess the use of performance measurement systems in firms implementing just‐in‐time (JIT). A mail questionnaire, with a response rate of 85 percent, was sent to larger New Zealand manufacturing companies. A total of 36 percent of the sample...

...Marwan A. Wafa; Mahmoud M. Yasin The just‐in‐time (JIT) production and inventory philosophy coupled with manufacturing automation in the form of computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) and its related facets are considered by many as great competitive weapons. The birth of JIT and its positive...

... appropriate synchronisation approach via visual interactive simulation models. The aim of these models is to represent visually and interactively three different synchronisation approaches: just in case, just in time and drum‐buffer‐rope, in order to compare and stress the main differences between them...

... UP Limited 1998 Component manufacture Just‐in‐time Motor industry Supplier relations This paper explores the conditions under which motor component manufacturers may choose to service car assembly plants through decentralised production in local assembly units (LAUs)[1] which...

... percent and 10 percent for 5 < n < 10, less than 5 percent for n > 10, and decreases further with an increase in n. Generally, the number of shipments in a just‐in‐time system is large, therefore the accuracy is acceptable. The transition from a traditional...

... both strategies have 40 per cent more quality certifications than the rest. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Just‐in‐time Kanban Manufacturing Total quality management USA Gone are the days when US manufacturers used to sit in the ivory tower of past achievements. The competitive edge...

... performance measurement system which fails to drive the continuous improvement required in the manufacturing cells. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Automobile components industry Cellular manufacturing Just‐in‐time Kaizen Performance measurement In the field of management research, attention has...

..., with jobs to be finished on a series of machines with the same function. Gives a short review of new developments in PMS associated with the problems of just‐in‐time (JIT) production, pre‐emption with set‐up, and capacitated machine scheduling. Discusses non‐regular objectives oriented by the JIT concept...

...Mehmet Savsar Presents a simulation model and the results on the effects of different maintenance policies on performance measures of just‐in‐time production systems under different operating conditions. Develops a simulation model for a line, which consists of five stations in series...

...Katsuhiko Takahashi; Nobuto Nakamura; Masanobu Izumi Deals with the kanban system in just‐in‐time (JIT) production as a system of production planning and inventory control for multi‐stage production inventory systems, Constructs a queueing network model of the kanban system with SLAM II. Aims...

...Kenneth K. Boyer Research on just‐in‐time (JIT) production and total quality management (TQM) has taken a variety of approaches. Focuses on the degree to which these elements of lean production are aided by investments in the supporting manufacturing infrastructure of the firm. The literature...

...Joel D. Wisner Presents the findings of a comprehensive survey conducted among a wide variety of US machine shops. The objectives of the study were to develop the literature‐based just‐in‐time (JIT) machine shop model and to study empirically the changes taking place in the operation of machine...

...John J. Lawrence; Holly S. Lewis Weak supplier bases and weak infrastructures pose significant obstacles to the use of just‐in‐time (JIT) purchasing in developing countries. Explores the use and effectiveness of JIT purchasing practices in one such developing country, Mexico, in an attempt to lay...

...Satya S. Chakravorty; J. Brian Atwater Over the past decade two approaches, just‐in‐time (JIT) and theory of constraints (TOC), for designing and operating production lines have developed, each claiming to be the “correct” way. In addition there are still those who maintain that line balanced...