Professional Documents
Culture Documents
OM 2018 As by PU
OM 2018 As by PU
Also show the chart of these jobs through the two work center
16. Write down distinguish between the product design and service design. Describe about different stages of
product development processes.
17. Eliminating waste is a vital part of JIT. Identify some sources of waste and how they may be eliminated.
Explain it.
Section "C"
Case Study
Read the following text and answer the questions given below. 20
World renowned Toyota Motor Corporation has a worldwide presence, With Toyota's investment in
North America alone exceeding $13 billion in manufacturing plants. Toyota is at the forefront of lean firms
and a showcase of JIT. Executives from all over the world make the journey to Toyota to see how JIT works.
But early one Saturday morning in February, a fire roared through the huge Aisin Seiki plant in
Kariya Japan. The fire incinerated the main source of crucial brake valves that Toyota buys from Aisin and
uses in most of its cars. Aisin has long been a supplier of the critical brake-fluid-proportioning (P-valves)
values, supplying 99% of Toyota's requirement for the valve. About 80% of Aisin's total output goes to
Toyota. As the smoke cleared, the extent of the disaster was clear-most of the 506 special machines used to
manufacture the P-valves were useless. A few might be repaired in 2 weeks, but most would need to be
replaced and the lead time was 6 weeks. Both Aisin and Toyota had been operating at full capacity.
Consistent with J1T practices, Toyota maintained only a 4-hour supply valve. And there were few of
the valves in the closely knit network that constituted Toyota's supply chain. Depending on a single, source
and holding little inventory is a risk, but it also keeps Toyota lean and its cots low. The Toyota Plants in Japan
build 1400 cars a day. Without that valve, production would come to a rapid halt. Moreover, Toyota
production managers were dismayed to find they needed 200 variations of the P-valve.
Consistent with the Kesector, Toyota holds 23% of Aisin's stock and Aisin's president is Kanshiro
Toyota of the Toyota family that founded the automaker. Kosukelkebuchi, a Toyota senior managing director,
was tracked down at * A.M. at a golf course clubhouse and given the bad news.
Questions: -
i. If you are Mr. Ikebuchi what would you do?
ii. What does this experience tell you about just in time?
iii. If you had been incharge of Chrysler JIT supplies the morning of September 11, 2001 what actions would
you have taken?