Just-In-Time (JIT) - Pull System Approach on A Malaysia Rubber Production Company

Abstract

The JIT-pull system is one of the lean tools which can reduce and eliminate all the wastes created in the production system. Seven waste elements which have been identified are transportation, waiting, over-production, defects, inventory, motion and excess processing. Currently, a rubber company has been alarmed on the wastes created in their production system as the production is running in push system mode. The wastes lead to high inventory costs, over-production, the requirement of large inventory spaces and inefficient products and materials flow. Hence, this project takes into account the situation and generates ideas which emphasis on the implementation of the Just-In-Time (JIT)-Pull System in term of changing the push system. The main objective of this study is to design and analyze the JIT-pull system in the rubber production system. The results showed that the JIT system design is capable of reducing inventory quantity, minimize the inventory costs, reduce requirements of large inventory spaces and also provide efficient communications in the production.