Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association Inc. – Association of Japanese automakers. IATF 16949:2016 was supported by the IATF and JAMA and worked out by representatives of the ISO/TC 176.

An institute promoting and supporting plant maintenance practices and methodologies, particularly in Japan.

Jidohka: Stopping a line automatically when a defective part is detected. Any necessary improvements can then be made by directing attention to the stopped equipment and the worker who stopped the operation. The jidohka system puts faith in the worker as a thinker and allows all workers the right to stop the line on which they are working. Also see “autonomation.”

Self-controlled nonconformity detection system. Jidoka (Japanese origin) functions as a tool to localize and report problems that arise. Machines automatically detect incorrect functions at production points and stop the further production. This prevents further processing of nonconforming parts.

See Just-in-sequence.

A concept in Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) focusing on operators' involvement in maintaining and improving equipment reliability.

JISQ 9100: An international quality management standard for the aerospace industry. Also see AS9100.

See Just-in-time.

Variability or fluctuations in timing, often referring to irregularities in signals, data transmission, or system performance.

Job instruction: Quality system documentation that describes work conducted in one function in an organization, such as setup, inspection, rework or operator.

The order or arrangement of tasks or operations in a particular sequence within a workflow or production process.

Audit by two or more collaborating auditing organizations at a single auditee. (On the basis of ISO 19011:2018)

Cooperation among parties that leads to the establishment of a new, legally independent entity. All founding companies participate with their capital. The founding companies also frequently introduce a large portion of resources in technology, property rights, technical and marketing know-how and/or industrial installations into the new company.

Japanese Standards Association, Tokyo, Japan. www.jsa.or.jp

Japanese Society of Quality Control, Tokyo, Japan. www.jsqc.org

Verification and subsequent summary of facts

Judgment inspection: A form of inspection to determine nonconforming product. Also see "informative inspection."

A sampling method based on the judgment or expertise of the sampler, selecting specific samples deemed representative or relevant.

The Romanian-American industrial engineer Joseph M. Juran (1904 – 2008) is one of the pioneers and important figures in quality science. His core activity was the “Quality Trilogy.“ The process of systematic and continual quality improvement resulted in three recurring steps, namely, quality planning, quality control and quality improvement (quality trilogy).

Juran trilogy: Three managerial processes identified by Joseph M. Juran for use in managing for quality: quality planning, quality control and quality improvement.

Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers, Tokyo, Japan. www.juse.or.jp

A manufacturing approach focusing on producing goods or components as needed, reducing waste and inventory costs.

Concept from procurement logistics with the objective of delivering the right quantity of the right products in the right order (in sequence). Further development of the just-in-time principle in order to provide the delivered product or material synchronously with the production order.

Organization principle and procurement strategy with the objective of waste-free realization of overlapping processes tailored to the specific needs. The right products should be procured at the right time and in the right quantity and provided for further processing. If this parts flows is practiced everywhere, the warehouse stock can approach zero. Today this principle is being further developed through just-in-sequence.

Just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing: An optimal material requirement planning system for a manufacturing process in which there is little or no manufacturing material inventory on hand at the manufacturing site and little or no incoming inspection.

Just-in-time (JIT) training: The provision of training only when it is needed to all but eliminate the loss of knowledge and skill caused by a lag between training and use.