The Use of Just-in-Time and Total Quality Management Principles

THE USE OF JUST-
IN-TIME AND
TOTAL QUALITY
MANAGEMENT
PRINCIPLES

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Identify and discuss the key elements in Kanban's operations process......................................3
Identification of how Kanban system is effective in manufacturing process of organisation....3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Operations management is an area of management which is related with designing and
controlling of production process. Kanban is the visual system which helps in managing the
work as it moves through a procedure (Gibson and Parkman, 2018). Toyota is one of the top
automobile manufacturing company and use Kanban system in its production to boost the quality
and become the well-known company in world. In this report, key elements are discussed and
also analyse the effective manufacturing system within an organisation.
MAIN BODY
Identify and discuss the key elements in Kanban's operations process
Kanban is a system which helps in controlling and managing the inventory at each step of
production and make it more effective and efficient. It provide new opportunities for Toyota in
order to identify and improve the whole process of production. Key elements of Kanban's
operation process are as follows:
Limit work in Progress: The primary objective of Kanban is to work efficiently and
effectively from the starting to ending of project with small amount of wastage. For this, it need
limiting of work for specific reason in order to manage the whole work in an appropriate manner
with least amount of wastage (Bromiley and Rau, 2016). In Toyota, its inventory is pulled from
the back side and when the demand of customers arise then it make space for it and work to next
step but only when it is pulled by the demand of customer.
Continuous Improvement: This approach is never ending or finished because it require
constant monitoring and determination of each and every step and overlook whole process for its
improvement. As the continuous improvement is useful determining and analysing the whole
process for its enhancement. For this, it is required that conditions, resources and the demand of
customer according the change of time as it is important for Toyota to assess the flow of work
and analyse the deviation in work and also take corrective action for it.
Identification of how Kanban system is effective in manufacturing process of organisation
Toyota treat their workers as they are the human being as it helps in building up the team
and system which allows the workers to show their capabilities.
Cost cutting with the help of elimination of waste: