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After reading "The Machine that Changed the World," by Womack, Jones, and Roos, all product management paradigms besides Just-In-Time seem irredeemably sub-opti
by ipnon 6y ago
After reading "The Machine that Changed the World," by Womack, Jones, and Roos, all product management paradigms besides Just-In-Time seem irredeemably sub-optimal, almost provably so. The book is about the Toyota Production System, and how Toyota's product management paradigm of JIT alone caused Toyota to become the largest car manufacturer in the world over Ford, GM and all the entrenched American mass producers.
- itcrowd 6y agoI agree. However, this pandemic has proven that JIT leads to outages when part of the supply chain is suddenly disrupted by external forces. On the other hand, what production system wouldn't have been hit (as hard?) by the corona virus? Interesting!
- cableshaft 6y agoUntil a major event like a pandemic comes along, and shows that Just in Time can be a bit fragile in those circumstances. https://www.marketplace.org/2020/02/27/justintime-manufacturing-model-challenged-coronavirus/ https://www.marketplace.org/2020/02/27/justintime-manufactur...