just in time
At the deadline
Just in time describes something arriving or happening at the last possible moment before it would be too late: We got to the airport just in time.
In manufacturing and business, just-in-time (often abbreviated JIT) refers to a production strategy where materials arrive exactly when needed rather than being stockpiled, minimizing inventory costs: just-in-time delivery, just-in-time manufacturing.
Just before deadline
- eleventh hourLatest possible time
- rushQuick sudden movement
- urgencyPressing need for action
- countdownBackward enumeration to zero
cutoff · pressure · ticking clock · impending · final hour · close call · narrow escape · photo finish
Incite to action
- punctualArriving when scheduled
- clockworkSpring-driven gear system
- reliableConsistently performing as expected
- schedulePlan of timed events
synchrony · appointment · precision · timekeeping · split-second · well-timed · coordination
Lacking fat; incline
- kanbanVisual workflow signal card
- ToyotaJapanese car company
- inventoryCatalog of held assets
- productionMaking or generating something
efficiency · workflow · throughput · waste reduction · continuous improvement · scheduling · stockless · replenishment
last minute
Just before deadline
- eleventh hourLatest possible time
- rushQuick sudden movement
- urgencyPressing need for action
countdown · cutoff · pressure · ticking clock · impending · final hour · close call · narrow escape · photo finish · wire
prompt
Incite to action
- punctualArriving when scheduled
- clockworkSpring-driven gear system
- reliableConsistently performing as expected
schedule · synchrony · appointment · precision · timekeeping · split-second · well-timed · coordination
lean
Lacking fat; incline
production · efficiency · workflow · throughput · waste reduction · continuous improvement · scheduling · stockless · replenishment · synchronization
- time wordsminute, hour, day, now, soon
- operationsoperation, operations, military operation, joint operation, workflow
- close callsclose call, near miss, narrow escape, close shave, skin of teeth
- reliefrelief, phew, whew, ease, easing
- supply chainsupply, supplier, delivering, suppliers, vendor
- automakingassembly line, car factory, production line, final assembly, paint shop
just in timejust in case
For possible need
overproduction · stockpiling · batch production · mass production · waste
just in timeahead of time
Before something is due
in advance · early · preemptively · proactively · overprepared
time, just, justice, adjust, timer, pastime, justify, lifetime, unjust