What is the method 'Just in Time'?

The method just in time (English translation of Just in Time) is a system of organization of production for factories, of Japanese origin. Also known as Toyota or JIT method allows to increase productivity. Reduces the cost of managing storage and losses due to unnecessary actions.

Companies such as Inditex use this method which saves the storage of over-stock, what does this mean? manufactures what you will sell a very small margin in-store and warehouse, and why? In economics, everything is measured and all can be posted with money, and space and time as well.

Do not skimp on production machinery. We work according to working time, nothing more. Reduced completion time of a product, which consists of four components:

• Movement time, which is reduced approaching the machines, simplifying the movement, establishing more rational routes or eliminating the need to move materials.
• The waiting time can be improved to better production scheduling and installing more capacity.
• The adaptation time machine: it is often the major bottleneck faced by companies, and its reduction is one of the vital elements of the JIT system.
• The processing time can be reduced by decreasing the size of the lots or increasing the efficiency of the machinery or operators.

Let's see how it works