Introduction of Just in Time (JIT) Manufacturing

        It is important for manufacturing firms that operations management is most important tool to determine their success or failure. It is critical that how manufacturing firms handle their business administration with some set rules and procedures of operations management. Before making any considerable procedures, the firms have to understand that what operations management is. It is a process of administering their manufacturing business to make sure that their firm is achieving efficiency with a highest level. The actual context of operations management is linked with the process of manufacturing and production. The planning as well as supervision done to organize production process so that production process is highly efficient; this is the main purpose and core belief of operations management process. In this overall process, the business administration is handled like handling the raw material along with labor and any other relevant terms so that products are produced with less error and process runes smoothly from start to end (Mahadevan 2010)

        The manufacturing firms have to look for strategies and planning to adopt in their operations management process so that they can get more out of it, and overall process is as efficient as possible with best possible results. For this purpose, the manufacturing process should be fast, targeted and eliminate any wastes of resources and time. Keeping this important need in view, a manufacturing process was introduced with the name of Just in Time (JIT). JIT was first introduced in 1970s by the Japanese manufacturing business and Toyota was the first major example to apply JIT in their manufacturing and production process (Phogat 2013).

        As per JIT concept, the manufacturing firm should ensure that any kind of manufacturing waste is eliminated from their manufacturing process, and appropriate quantity of resources & raw material is used to develop right amount of products, which are needed in certain amount of time. So, the idea is very simple to understand that producing products with required raw material quantity, eliminating any waste and not producing products without demand. It is important for manufacturing firms to integrate JIT manufacturing system in their production process if they are having any waste and producing products more than the demanded quantity. The JIT will help firms to remain efficient and highly productive (Cheng and Podolsky 1996). In this paper, the next part will critically analyze as well as summarize three research articles to see that how JIT has been implemented by different firms and what they gained by doing so. The overall analysis will give an idea that how strong and efficient JIT system could be for manufacturing firms.

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