Measuring JIT Performance in Auto-suppliers industry in The United States

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Measuring JIT Performance in Auto-suppliers industry in The
United States
Hsien-Ho Liao
International Bachelor 's Program of Agribusiness National Chung Hsing University,
Taichung City, Taiwan

Abstract
The just-in-time (JIT) production system has been used in the United States for decades, often not to its full extent. Japan has also implemented JIT in many of their organizations both at home and in their manufacturing sites abroad. Many American companies that have adopted the
JIT system both internally and externally did not receive outstanding results even after many attempts. Many experts point out that JIT has to be modified in order to fit in the American culture.
JIT is not just a philosophy but an actual process.
The core JIT philosophy is to achieve the performance of activities based on immediate need or demand. JIT can be applied not just in the manufacturing area, but it also can be broadly used as a process that is designed to assist companies in operating cost, reduce their energy usage, processing times and material. In fact, JIT has now become popular in many industries such as hospitals, education, banks, trade, information technology and many others.
This paper will focus on the JIT performance in automotive supplier industry. In chapter one, the brief history and current situation of automotive industry will be addressed, in chapter two, the previous research and observations will be covered as well as advantages and disadvantages of JIT. The qualitative survey results and survey data were collected via telephone in order to eliminated survey errors (participants can ask question if they do not understand the question). The data was analyzed by SPSS software; the researcher used the following models:
Cronbath’s Alpha, Factor analysis, Pearson Correlation, Mean, and Crosstab.

Keyword: JIT, Just-in-time, automotive supplier, and JIT performance.

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Introduction
Automobile production involves two

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