“Do you have any idea what kind of quality problems these
changes are going to create?”
“Come on, move it. I want you to have this set-up for onepiece
production before I come by again.”
“If you say so, but it won’t work.”
The three common excuses encountered at this point boil
down to: “I don’t want to change things,” “It’s too much trouble,”
and, “I’m afraid I’ll get laid off.”
Aside from these common excuses, I have been able to identify
ten arguments against JIT that are often encountered on
the path of JIT improvement. Figure 2.3 lists these arguments.
These are just some of the wide variety of anti-JIT arguments
one runs into when trying to promote JIT improvements.
To elaborate a bit:
1. “JIT improvements won’t do any good!”
Here we have a sweeping condemnation of the whole JIT
improvement program.