Featured in Keeping your powder dry – 03-2016

Just in time or not

Production materials: Has a fatal accident at the worlds largest manufacturer of silver powder put the concept of just in time production to the test for the PV supply chain?

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pv magazine

25 Feb 2016

If time is money, then “just in time” is money on steroids. The widely used manufacturing process – JIT for short – is where the parts of the supply chain are programmed to mesh like the tick-tock of a well-maintained clock, working together in precise unison. Or poetically put, in spirit. That is the meaning …

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