Business Administration 1220E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Production Control, Avoidance Speech, Continual Improvement Process

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Just-in-time (jit) manufacturing to produce only what is needed, when it is needed. Jit philosophy eliminate all waste in the organization. Jit system a management system that aims to improve the manufacturing or service process by eliminating waste. Origin of jit systems: 1950s, the japanese were short on capital and space, for toyota, to improve performance meant to reduce inventory, reducing inventory led to reducing all kinds of waste. Inventory hides problems: poor quality, machine breakdowns, poor design, poor vendors, inefficient layout, long setups. Waste anything other than the minimum amount of resources that is essential to add value to the product: process, scrap, non-value-added cost, wrong tools/equipment, over-production, extra inventory, inappropriate use of resources. Inventory: storage, capital costs, product defect, interrupted flow, lost capacity, wait for replacement, waiting time, unplanned, planned queue, waiting for other parts in batch, methods, searching for tools, poor layout, walking, movement, material handling, receiving, storing, retrieving. Work cells efficiency within a process, multi-functional workers.

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