Management and Organizational Studies 3330A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Time And Motion Study, Quality Circle, Job Enrichment

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 3330A/B
• Professor: Rick Burjaw

Document Summary

Just in ime manufacturing: product only what is needed only when it is needed. Jit system: management system that aims to improve manufacturing or service process by eliminaing waste. Toyota (taiichi ohno) wanted to reduce inventory to reduce waste and improve performance. Inventory hides problem, lower inventory and problems become visible. Waste: anything other than minimum amount of resources essenial to adding value to product. Process (scrap, non value adding costs, wrong equip) Overproducion (extra inventory, poor use of resources) Methods (walking, poor layout, searching for tools) Product defects (interrupted low, lost capacity, wait for replacement) Key elements of jit: work cells: process eiciency, mulifuncional workers to eliminate worker ineiciency and increase worker producivity. 72/345 diagram: pull producion system: each workstaion requests/pulls items from previous workstaions only when needed. Signal, not a schedule, a card/container that speciies quanity that preceding workstaion can produce of that good. Similar to ixed inventory system (order quanity = reorder point)