Article ID: | iaor1991115 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 29 |
Start Page Number: | 61 |
End Page Number: | 66 |
Publication Date: | Dec 1988 |
Journal: | Production and Inventory Management Journal |
Authors: | Lambrecht Marc R., Decaluwe Lieve |
Keywords: | production: JIT |
MRP, synchronized manufacturing, and JIT/kanban are often compared; this article views the approaches more as complementary. Two cases are presented to illustrate that the key success factor in all three is bottleneck management. Synchronized manufacturing is a concept introduced by Goldratt which is more generally described as constraint theory, as explained in this article.