Find an example of successful JIT manufacturing. For your chosen examples, provide a brief summary of the manufacturing and explain how they successful use JIT. (Question 4, page 262)
Most JIT operations function as suppliers to large manufacturing production lines. The key to JIT is trust on the part of both partners. The prime trusts the JIT supplier to have parts at the right place at the right time in the configuration needed to go directly to the production line. The JIT supplier in turn must trust its suppliers for components and assemblies to arrive in the correct configuration to go directly to the prime's production line. The ISO 9000 suppliers are one step ahead on this concept.