Just-in-time manufacturing is an industrial engineering production method in which materials, parts and components are delivered to each stage of a manufacturing process only as they are needed, rather than being stockpiled in advance, so that inventory levels and the costs of storing and handling unused stock are minimized. The approach, refined at Toyota's automobile plants in Japan from the 1950s through the 1970s as part of the Toyota Production System, relies on tight coordination with suppliers and a pull system, often signaled with kanban cards, in which each production step draws material from the step before it only in response to actual downstream demand. Just-in-time methods have since been adopted widely across manufacturing industries worldwide.
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While Just-In-Time manufacturing focuses on efficiency of inventory strategy to eliminate waste and enhance productivity, Lean manufacturing uses efficiency in its system setups to reduce cycle, flow, and throughput times being the added values to customers.
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