manufacturing waste by producing the right part in the right place at the right time.
a) Elimination of waste: Waste is defined as any activity that does not add value.
Anything over the minimum necessary amount is waste.
JIT in manufacturing listed the Famous Seven Wastes as follows:
Waste of overproduction
Waste of waiting
Waste of transportation
Waste of stocks
Waste of motion
Waste of making defects
Waste of processing.
b) Respect for humans: Work is handled by teams than individuals. Workers are
given more responsibility.
JIT Process:
When JIT is implemented, the responsibility of quality for incoming material rests with
the supplier. Income material is delivered directly at the point of use at the shop floor.
This eliminates the duplicate shop floor inventory.
JIT
Shiego Shingo, a Japanese JIT authority and engineer at the Toyota Motor Company identifies seven wastes
as being the targets of continuous improvement in production process. By attending to these wastes, the
improvement is achieved.
1. Waste of over production.
2. Waste of waiting.
3. Waste of transportation.
4. Waste of processing.
5. Waste of stocks.
6. Waste of motion.
7. Waste of making defective products.
Eliminate the seven wastages:
1. Waste of over production: eliminate by reducing set-up times, synchronizing quantities and timing
between processes. Make only what is needed now.
2. Waste of waiting: Eliminate bottlenecks and balance uneven loads by flexible work force and equipment.
3. Waste of transportation: Minimise transportation and handling if not possible to eliminate.
4. Waste of processing: Reasons for existence of the product and then why each process is necessary.
5. Waste of stocks: reducing all other wastes by reduces stocks.
6. Waste of motion: First improve the motions, then mechanise or automate.
7. Waste of making defective products: develop the production process to prevent defects from being
produced, so as to eliminate inspection.
Benefits of JIT
The most significant benefit is to improve the responsiveness of the firm to the changes in the
market place thus providing an advantage in competition.
Following are the benefits of JIT:
1. Product costis greatly reduced due to reduction of manufacturing cycle time, reduction of waste and
inventories and elimination of non-value added operation.
2. Qualityis improved because of continuous quality improvement programmes.
3. DesignDue to fast response to engineering change, alternative designs can be quickly brought on the
shop floor.
4. Productivity improvement.
5. Higher production system flexibility.
6. Administrative and ease and simplicity.