... of the Japanese companies based in the UK was carried out by a team of researchers at the University of Strathclyde. Discusses the use of JIT,one of the strategies examined in the survey. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Just‐in‐time Management Ratios TQM It is only in the last 30 years that Japanese...

...Ching‐Jong Liao Critical‐ratio technique is a common approach used to identify the next job to run on a machine. Recently, an alternative procedure, known as the contingent critical‐ratio technique, has been proposed and proved to be superior to the conventional critical‐ratio rule. Examines...