Using a participator for teaching modern methodologies of business such as. JIT, MRP and cellular organisation

摘要

The teaching of JIT, MRP or Cellular Manufacture rarely gets beyond the learning of the vocabulary of the ideas, the claimed advantages on offer and providing an awareness of some of the difficulties. Students - both on degree and executive courses - gain little idea of how to implement the methods and the disruption during transition which they will cause. Equally, going on a site visit where it is claimed that these methods are in use gets little beyond observation of a working practice.