One of the important elements that have been playing a significant role in today’s global business operations is culture. An important dimension of cultural analysis has been added to its discussion of transferability of JIT/TQM to other countries ever since the Japanese management techniques, JIT and TQM, became popular throughout the world. This paper reviews the transferability of these popu...

New employees in an organisation typically undergo a period of relatively intense training when they commence their employment. Often the quantity of information imparted is too large for the newcomers to assimilate during the short training period. Moreover, much of the information may not be relevant until months or even years after the initial training period, by which time it has long been ...

During the 1980s various approaches to batch-type manufacturing environments were implemented. The most popular of these were MaterialRequirements Planning (MRP), ('JfOUP Technology (GT) and Just-In-Time (JIT). However few successful implementations of any of these approaches were achieved [1] [2] [3]. This paper compares the various approaches of GT, MRP, TIT along with the integrated approach...

The deficiencies in previous quantitative models for buyer–supplier coordination in a just-in-time (JIT) environment are corrected. An expanded model incorporating additional factors is developed and the factors are ranked through a detailed numerical analysis. Factor ranks are then compared with results of a series of semi-formal interviews with supplier and purchasing representatives. Publish...

This paper considers Just-In-Time Job-Shop Scheduling, in which each activity has an earliness and a tardiness cost with respect to a due date. It proposes a constraint programming approach, which includes a novel filtering algorithm and dedicated heuristics. The filtering algorithm uses a machine relaxation to produce a lower bound that can be obtained by solving a Just-In-Time Pert problem. I...

This paper presents the optimal scheduling in a single machine by considering idle insert. The objective function is to minimize the sum of maximum earliness and tardiness. This scheduling problem can be applied in different production systems such as just in time (JIT) systems. Special case of common due date is presented and the associated optimal solution is reported. In general case of a si...

Appropriate scheduling and sequencing of tasks on machines is one of the basic and significant problems that a shop or a factory manager encounters; this is why in recent decades extensive studies have been done on scheduling issues. One type of scheduling problems is just-in-time (JIT) scheduling and in this area, motivated by JIT manufacturing, this study investigates a mathematical model for...

The control policy affects performance of a manufacturing line and can be classified as push, pull, or combination of pull and push. A pull or just-in-time (JIT) production system is a philosophy or an approach of the manufacturing system in which order release occurs due to physical removal of finished inventory in response to the customer demand. In this paper, we review the behavior of a man...

Most modern languages are implemented using Virtual Machines (VMs). While the best VMs use Just-In-Time (JIT) compilers to achieve good performance, JITs are costly to implement, and few VMs therefore come with one. The RPython language allows tracing JIT VMs to be automatically created from an interpreter, changing the economics of VM implementation. In this paper, we explain, through two conc...