Just in Time‚ is it still a good strategy? The following essay will critically evaluate whether the ‘just in time’ approach to production is still a good strategy and whether it has any implications. The manufacturing approach ‘just in time’ was first established in japan during the mid-1970 by Taichi Ohno and Shigeo Shingo at the Toyota Motor Company. Toyota was one of the first companies to input this approach to streamline its manufacturing and production to minimise the retention of raw
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and Cicero all talked about Just War Theory‚ and emphasis on the Just Warrior. Obedience and loyalty ( can lead to destruction. Plato‚ Aristotle and Cicero‚ the fathers of the Just War tradition‚ develop and enhance the concept of civic virtue and the necessity to uphold such morality during the most chaotic‚ violent and brutal of times – war. They each defend the necessity of war; yet emphasize the correct code of conduct in war and what makes an honorable and just warrior. Today‚ war is much
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“War‚ what is it good for”? The lyrics to the 60’s pop song‚ provokes the question that Just War proponents and Pacifists have wrestled with throughout history‚ reaching opposite conclusions. Those in favor of Just War theory‚ say war is only good insofar as it is fought for the right reasons and brings about the right end. Whereas‚ Pacifists reject war completely‚ preferring peaceful means to resolve conflict. But which one is morally and ethically right? Which one should be adopted and practiced
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Martin Luther King is charged for breaking a law. King questions the differences between just and unjust laws to justify his actions in Birmingham and the charges of breaking laws willingly. Defending his willingness to break laws‚ King argues‚ “How can you advocate breaking laws and obeying other?” He answers to accusation of his willingness to break laws with a well-written argument of what is just and unjust laws. Martin Luther King uses the definition‚ the categories‚ and the implication
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When you look at torture and the idea of torture you also have to look at what both a just and unjust act is. Both Aristotle and Mill discuss justice and injustice along with just and unjust acts. So in order to determine if it is ever permissible to torture another person according to Mill and Aristotle‚ you have to first look at both of their definitions of justice and if the act is just or unjust. In Aristotle’s Book II of Nicomachean Ethics‚ he explains that virtue of character is the mean to
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Adams Animals Hurt Just Like Us Animal cruelty is one of the most heartless acts of abuse all over the world. Although some animals nature is rough and harmful to people‚ no animal deserves to be cruelly treated in an inhumane fashion‚ there are different ways to keep the harmful animals from harming anyone in a humane fashion. Animal cruelty is one of most sicken crimes to me‚ how someone can hurt an innocent animal and barely get any type of punishment is beyond me and is just as sicken as the
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types of myths‚ how do you know which one is true? We don’t! That’s why it’s good to compare and contrast different myths! The Pan in “In Just‚” and the Pan in the Greek Myth‚ title “Pan god of wild‚” share many traits‚ but at the same time are different. Now‚ why is that? Well‚ it’s obviously because of people‚
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costs can easily become prohibitive. A wiser approach is to make your production agile‚ able to adapt to changing customer demands. This can only be done by JUST IN TIME (JIT) philosophy. Taiichi Ohno‚ a former shop manager and eventually vice president of Toyota Motor Company‚ is the individual credited most for the with the development of just-in-time. It is a term used to describe the Toyota production system‚ is widely recognized today as the one of the most efficient manufacturing system in the
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Summary: In the story "I Just Want to be Average" by Mike Rose‚ Rose‚ talks about his his past schooling experience and how his experience at Mercy nearly ruined him as a student. He narrates his story of his peers in the vocational learning classes and how his teachers responded or failed to respond to their needs as students. The various situations Mike experienced all centered around one main thing and that was a lack of effort‚ by the students and teachers both. Response: This story is a really
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In “Just Walk on By” the author‚ Brent Staples‚ uses his real life experiences and gives a great explanation to how the blacks were mistreated during his lifetime. The stories that he tells in this article take place during the center of the Civil Rights Movement. He gives us several stories in this article of situations that he was put in. The first paragraph of his article really grabs the reader’s attention. He starts off with “My first victim was a woman white‚ well-dressed probably in her early
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