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List of contents
Foreword -- Introduction -- Euro-Japanese Industrial Collaboration: Experiences and Prospects -- Toshiba's Approach to Purchasing -- Experiences of a British Firm Supplying Components to Japanese Companies -- A British Trade Union View of Organisation and JIT in the UK -- Application of Just-in-Time Manufacturing Techniques in the United Kingdom* -- Integrating JIT into a Total Production and Marketing System -- JIT in Large Complex Companies -- A Trade Union View on Jit in Germany -- A Comparison from a Japanese Point of View -- Conclusions -- Application of Just-in-Time Manufacturing Techniques in the United Kingdom -- Just in Time Symposium Cologne, 10-11 September 1986 -- The Internationalization of Japanese Business
About the author
Dr. Malcolm Trevor is Chairman of the Euro:Japanese Management Studies Association at the Policy Studies Institute London, Britain's largest independent research institute for the study of economic, industrial and social policies and the institutions thereof. He previously edited The lntemational (Japanese Business Campus/Westview 1987)
Summary
Just In Time (JIT) systems in the context of the relations between Japanese manufacturers in Europe and European suppliers of parts and materials have so far received little attention.