A. Singh

A.C. Shukla

Tarangini

Abstract

World class manufacturing is a management philosophy that emphasizes on meeting external and internal customer needs and specification and importance of doing things right for world market society. One of the world class production techniques is Just in Time (JIT). JIT production system has well defined elements that need to be implemented. Researches show that implementation of this system is not unique in all time, place and circumstances. Implementation of this system may differ from one company to another and the elements those are needed to a company may be very specific to its own need. Several Indian firms have either initiated steps towards JIT implementation or claim to have already implemented many aspects of JIT. In this paper various practices and benefits are identified through literature review and appropriate weights are assigned to them using paired comparison method. Further TOPSIS (Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) is applied to find the ranking of selected organizations.

Keywords- Just-In-Time Production system, Practices, Benefits, Paired Comparison Method, TOPSIS Method