Just-In-Time Manufacturing Just-In-Time manufacturing‚ commonly referred to as JIT‚ is a company wide philosophy aimed at eliminating a company ’s waste. Waste can be found in many forms. For example it can be defined in the material form such as plastic or metal scrap‚ or it can be defined in the administrative form as excessive overhead that slows production or adds an unnecessary expense. The basic theory behind JIT is a pull system that is driven by a demand of supplies. This results in
Premium Kanban Inventory Lean manufacturing
Shipper Manufacturing Company Case Study 1. In order for the APD Division at Shipper to gradually shift from a low volume/sole-source product line to a higher volume/continuous product‚ manufacturing will need to adopt new operations objectives with respect to cost‚ delivery‚ quality and flexibility. The current customized products allow for costs to be passed through to the customer but with a producer designed product‚ more of the costs could fall internally and have a larger affect on profits
Premium Manufacturing Management Quality control
| |Just in Time Manufacturing | |A Briefing Paper on the Just-in-Time Philosophy | | | Abstract Just-in-Time manufacturing is an
Premium Manufacturing Supply chain management
Manufacturing Process Flow for Sanitaryware Ceramic Processing Ceramic undergoes through certain processes which are: * certain processes which are: * Slip Preparation & Glaze Making * Casting & Drying * Glazing * Firing * Inspection‚ Repairing‚ Re-firing & Packing 1. Slip Preparation and Glaze Making: For the slip preparation the raw materials are mixed with water as per the requirement. Proper composition along with the sufficient amount
Premium Pottery
1-0 INTRODUCTION Japanese are good at manufacturing. Just ask any global producers of automobiles‚ copiers‚ or personal electronics what happened in the 1980s. They will probably tell you how the Japanese captured a large share of the global-market by creating world-class standards in design‚ materials‚ and management. What is often overlooked is the attempt to understand how the Japanese industry succeeds at the services that support the manufacturing process (Krajewski et al‚ 1987: 40). Within the
Premium Kanban Production and manufacturing Management
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
Premium Management Lean manufacturing Quality assurance
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
Premium Inventory
from a supplier: MTS‚ being the only supplier for the K-Cup packaging line‚ has a control over the machine. Having no substitution plan in place‚ Keurig is forced to follow MTS’s request to fulfill the K-Cup manufacturing capacity. • Difficult to ‘reverse engineer’ the manufacturing technology: despite the alternatives of having new K-Cup suppliers‚ there is no assurance that the new suppliers could complete the project on-time and on-budget as the learning curve is hard to be built at an initial
Premium Manufacturing Marketing Coffee
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
Premium Kanban
6/10/13 Analysis I chose to construct a sales process flow based upon a previous job I had as a medical consultant for a plastic surgeon. Dr. Bishara performed all different types of cosmetic procedures‚ yet he decided to shift his practice to focus on hair transplants. We were the only practice in the state of Texas that had a robot that performed these hair transplants. Dr. Bishara‚ had done a great job at marketing with Google adwords‚ which created a lot of traffic to our webpage. There
Premium Google Plastic surgery Surgery