ABSTRACT
Just In Time (JIT) systems have many different aspects: technical aspects, social and organisational aspects, financial aspects, and last but not least, quality aspects. Obviously there is no point in supplying things just in time if the quality is not going to be right, and one manager in Japan was quoted as saying that one of the points of JIT was actually to induce a permanent sense of crisis. In the United States also, there are quite a few Japanese motor components makers such as Stanley Electric Company and others who are producing locally and supplying not merely the Japanese motor manufacturers but also Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler, or the "Big Three" of the US motor industry. Some of the things have even been shown on television in the UK, and another Japanese company that is starting manufacturing in Britain, Komatsu, is also giving contracts to local suppliers.
