Just-In-Time:
Just-in-Time (JIT) may be described as a production strategy especially designed to remove waste during a production process. It considers all of those things as waste that do not add any value to the product. Therefore Just-in-Time means reducing inventory levels, improving quality, and providing motivation to solve the problems as soon as they occur. Implementation of Just-in-Time also requires:
1. Use of high quality parts and processes.
2. Minimum lot size of a product.
Objectives
After studying this unit, you should be able to
- understand the philosophy of JIT manufacturing,
- study the characteristics of JIT,
- know the working and design of kanban system,
- learn the implementation issues and procedure, and
- Understand the advantages of JIT.