other locations. Because the Oxford plant is the only one owned by Caterpillar that produces these couplings‚ he needs to find outside sources that can produce the couplings to Caterpillar’s standard and get them contracted and trained so they can get couplings to the manufacturing plants and keep production running while Caterpillar rebuilds the Oxford plant. While other plants are gearing up to produce the couplings‚ Caterpillar needs to begin “cross-distributing” whatever couplings are on hand
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1. Description of Company and Industry Founded and headquartered in Peoria‚ Illinois‚ Caterpillar‚ Inc. is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of construction & mining equipment‚ diesel & natural gas engines‚ industrial gas turbines‚ and diesel-electric locomotives. It operates in five segments. The construction segment provides machinery‚ such as backhoe‚ loaders‚ small track-type tractors‚ and mini excavators for use in infrastructure and building construction projects. The resource segment
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Caterpillar is an American company known for its design for manufacture‚ markets‚ and construction and mining machinery. It is a world leading Fortune 500 corporate known as the ticker symbol‚ CAT‚ on the Wall Street Stock Exchange. Benjamin Holt‚ founder on Holt Manufacturing Company in 1890‚ designed and distribute stream tractors in San Joaquin Valley in Stockton‚ California. In 1907‚ Benjamin Holt decided to change Holt Manufacturing Co. to Caterpillar after a reporter specified that Holt’s
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1. Executive Summary This report provides an analysis and evaluation of the Just-In-Time system‚ the advantages and disadvantages of the system and how it would benefit AG & Z. The Just-In-Time (JIT) system is a process where goods are ordered as required‚ as opposed to the currently used batch processing system where goods are made in bulk and stored in warehouses until sold. The Just-In-Time system was initially developed to not only cut down the amount of waste produced by other systems‚
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A Project Report on Just In Time (With Respect to the Comparative Analysis of Tata Motors and Toyota Motors) Submitted By Domenico M. Gouveia T.Y.B.M.S 2012-13 Project Guide Prof. Chitra More Submitted To University of Mumbai Vidyalankar School of Information Technology (Affiliated to University of Mumbai) Vidyalankar Marg‚ Wadala (E)‚ Mumbai 400 037 PROJECT REPORT ON [Just In Time] SUBMITTED BY Dominic Gouveia T.Y.B.M.S. 2012-13
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Table of Contents Introduction Just-in-time is a new system created by Taiichi Ohno in Japan in the early 1970s at a Toyota car assembly plant. It was created to reduce cost and eliminate inventory. Basically the idea of JIT is to produce necessary items at the necessary time in the necessary quantity needed. It is a management philosophy and not a technique‚ which is associated with the management process and not the end-result. In other words‚ the idea is to supply materials
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to be used for research/reference purposes only. These papers are provided to help students write their own paper. All papers should be used with proper references. � [Just In Time 1] Running Head: Just In Time Just In Time [Student ’s Full Name] [University ’s Name] [Instructor ’s Name] [Course Title] � [Just In Time 2] ABSTRACT Globalization has started a competition among all and thus every organization need to be strategically sound in order to survive. In order for a company to survive
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Buffer Inventory – Just-in-Time Buffer inventory is also called safety inventory. Its purpose is to compensate for the unexpected fluctuations in supply and demand. For example‚ a retail operation can never forecast demand perfectly‚ even when it has a good idea of the most likely demand level. It will order goods from its suppliers such that there is always a certain amount of most items in stock. This minimum level of inventory is there to cover against the possibility that demand will be greater
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Title: | Operations Management‚ 9/e and Principles of Operations Management‚ 7/e | Book Title: | Operations Management‚ 9/e and Principles of Operations Management‚ 7/e | Location on Site: | Chapter 16: Just-in-Time and Lean Operations > Self-Study Quizzes > Multiple Choice | Date/Time Submitted: | May 5‚ 2012 at 4:33 PM (UTC/GMT) | | Summary of Results | 24% Correct of 17 Scored items: 4 Correct: | 24% | 13 Incorrect: | 76% | | More information about scoring | | |
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IEEM 517 Just-In-Time LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1 1. 2. 3. Understand the philosophy of Just-In-Time (JIT) Learn the working procedure of JIT Know the differences between the two production-control systems‚ MRP (the push system) and JIT (the pull system) 1 CONTENTS • Motivation • JIT Philosophy • JIT Procedure – Toyota Kanban Systems • MRP vs. JIT • Summary 2 PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT Product development long term Product portifolio Purchasing Supply network design
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