Exercise 4. Translate the sentences based on listening exercise 2b (p.56-57) from Russian into English using the given words and word combinations.

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Exercise 3. Answer the following questions to the text

“Just-In-Time Production” (p. 55).

1. What alternative should manufacturing companies consider while producing finished products?
2. What does “outsourcing” mean?
3. What is Just-In-Time production?
4. What are the other terms used in relation to this production method?
5. Who is JIT credited to? What is he?
6. Where did the idea of JIT originate?
7. What does the European and American logic of production encourage?
8. What does the logic of lean production welcome?
9. What are the advantages of JIT? Give a list of about 7- 8 points.
10. How does outsourcing contribute to the effectiveness of JIT?
11. Why does outsourcing make production vulnerable?
12. Which features of Japanese business culture make outsourcing work effectively?
13. How do small suppliers reduce their costs?
14. Why are quality problems dealt with quickly and successfully?
15. Why does JIT production method provide a company with more flexibility to demand changes?

Quality Manager

to implant the quality standards

to work to quality standards

the ultimate quality

to put restraint on sb/sth

to be reproducible in volume

to manufacture

Total Quality Management

ongoing activity

to refine

perfect quality

1. Контроль качества – это основная функция в деятельности любой компании. Менеджер по контролю за качеством отвечает за внедрение стандартов качества во всех подразделениях компании. Сотрудники каждого отдела в организации должны работать согласно им и стараться добиться максимально высокого качества.

1. Необходимо накладывать определенные ограничения на работу дизайнеров, чтобы их проекты можно было запустить в массовое производство. Важно обеспечить одинаково высокое качество при производстве большого количества продуктов.

1. Общий контроль качества – это непрерывная деятельность по улучшению процесса производства с целью добиться идеального качества.