Journal article
Designing and phasing in just-in-time production systems
Abstract
Japanese just-in-time (JIT) production systems have been described extensively in books, professional magazines, and academic journals. These systems are so different from the production systems currently in use in North America and Europe that it appears that the only way to implement JIT is to dismantle the current production system on one day and begin a full JIT system the next day. In this paper we describe a three-step process for …
Authors
MILTENBURG J; WIJNGAARD J
Journal
International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 115–131
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Publication Date
January 1991
DOI
10.1080/00207549108930052
ISSN
0020-7543