Publisher's Synopsis
This new volume in the well-known series "International Trends in Manufacturing Technology" is concerned with the techniques and application of Just-in-Time. It contains chapters on the various techniques of JIT including manufacturing techniques such as cellular manufacturing, set-up time reduction and Kanban; production and material control techniques such as MRP-JIT, OPT and schedule smoothing, organisation for and implementation of JIT as well as cases drawn from countries around the world. JIT is an approach and a philosophy which covers a wide range of techniques and considerations, and this carefully prepared collection of papers sets out to answer four questions concerned with JIT: What is JIT? What are the benefits of JIT? What are the techniques of JIT? How can JIT be implemented?
