Among the many changes required in implementing a just-in-time (JIT) production system, the change from batch to level production was the most difficult part in a consumer electronics company in Korea Simulation was used to persuade workers of the importance of level production by comparing the performance of batch production to level production. This article describes how simulation was used to convince workers to change and later to show them the improvements resulting from that change.
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