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Getting from “just‐in‐case” to “just‐in‐time”: Insights from a simple model
Author(s) -
Suri Rajan,
De Treville Suzanne
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
journal of operations management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.649
H-Index - 191
eISSN - 1873-1317
pISSN - 0272-6963
DOI - 10.1016/0272-6963(86)90005-7
Subject(s) - simple (philosophy) , productivity , factory (object oriented programming) , computer science , production (economics) , industrial engineering , operations research , operations management , management science , marketing , industrial organization , business , economics , microeconomics , epistemology , engineering , philosophy , macroeconomics , programming language
Many factory managers are hesitant about implementing a just‐in‐time system due to concern about the dip in productivity that occurs. Here, a simple analytic model is used to study the trade‐off between disruption and learning/improvement on a production line. While simple, the model is shown to capture many of the effects of just‐in‐time mentioned in the literature. Using insights from the model, an attempt is made to identify those factors to which successful implementation of just‐in‐time is most sensitive.