YIELD MANAGEMENT AT NATIONAL CAR RENTAL Faced with possible liquidation in 1993 by General Motors, its parent company, National Car Rental was under significant pressure to produce both a substantial and sustainable profit. To accomplish this, management decided to adopt a comprehensive revenue management system. Instead of a constant car rental price all the time, the revenue management system demonstrated …
JIT in Services Service organizations and service operations within manufacturing firms present interesting opportunities for the application of JIT concepts. Despite the many differences between service and manufacturing, both share the most basic attributes of production. because they employ processes that add value to the basic inputs with the objective of creating an end product or service. JIT focuses on …
Concurrently Solve Problems and Measure Performance A JIT application is not an overnight. turnkey installation. Rather, it is an evolutionary process that is continually seeking ways to improve production. Improvement is achieved by looking at problems as challenges rather than threats-problems that can be solved with common sense and detailed, rigorous analysis.The techniques for problem-solving are …
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JIT Layouts Design Flow Process J IT requires that the plant layout be designed to ensure balanced workflow with a minimum of work in process. This means that we must view each workstation as an integral part of the overall production line, whether or not a physical line actually exists. Capacity balancing is done using the same logic …
JIT IS INTEGRAL TO SATURN’S SUCCESS When Genera! Motors announced the Saturn project, its goal was very clear: to recapture the sn1~II-car market from the Japanese. To accomplish this, GM incorporated many new and innovative concepts in designing Saturn’s manufacturing facility in.Spring Hill, Tennessee. For example, much higher percentage of the components are produced n-site instead …
