... support as a key element, a paucity of empirical studies exist to test this proposition. This study tests the relationship among organizational support, JIT implementation, and performance in US production systems with the use of LISREL confirmatory factor analysis. Data collected via a survey are used...

...Michael M. McKinney; Phillip E. Miller The environmental laws have placed manufacturing concerns in a quandary regarding compliance with the complex and far‐reaching web of regulations which affect practically every aspect of production operations. Although variations from the mandates imposed may...

... consistent quality standards in a high‐volume environment, and to fulfill the NAFTA’s rules of origin provision. Maquiladora production is now shifting from lower‐skilled, labor‐intensive assembly to advanced production technologies. Obstacles still remain in Mexico’s infrastructure and regulations to its...

...Phillip E. Miller; Michael M. McKinney The current state of environmental laws has placed business in a quandary regarding compliance with the myriad regulations directed at everything from the manufacture of new products, substances, or chemicals to the generation and disposal of waste...

...Bryan Wall Discusses the concept of materials traceability showing how it can produce up to 80 per cent of the benefits of total quality management. Identifies a number of critical control points (CCPs) in any production process. These are the points at which things could go wrong and where...

... management philosophy on the large number of suppliers on whom depends the very survival of hundreds of JIT buyers are examined. © MCB UP Limited 1990 Just‐in‐time Production Purchasing Strategy Supply 12 INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT & DATA SYSTEMS 90,3 A JIT system makes several demands...