JIT Expectation Gap (An Empirical Study of Iranian Companies)
The JIT production approach have specific tools and necessities in such environments based on production philosophy. The tools and facilities should able to adopt with all of the needs and to have appropriate mechanism to provide the achievement to the JIT objectives. This article is studying the optimum application of and measurement of the JIT system. The research methods are based on both survey and descriptive study. the tools of gathering information are questionnaire and interview which collected from Iranian industrials experts. The sample size was 70 experts of which is 23 from public and 47 from private companies to recognize the difference significant between private and public companies. The Mann Whitnee U has employed, while the Wilcoxon test has supported the gap exception between Iranian companies to use JIT in their production process.
