Manufacturers can't panic and discard JIT

Canada-U.S. border falls on world's longest assembly line by James P. Womack James P. Womack, one of North America's leading authors and speakers on lean manufacturing takes aim at the terror-sparked confusion over just-in-time manufacturing. Womack is the founder and president of the Lean Enterprise Institute (www.lean.org) and coauthored "Lean Thinking" (1996 Simon & Schuster) with Daniel T. Jones.