For that reason, very important to check with each institution individually to find out what its admission requirements are. For example, a passing score at one university may not be a passing score at another university. It is the responsibility of the student to find out what the requirements are for each institution. | 02 Business Read the passage and answer the questions. 3 Track 27 3 Working as a manager at the Toyota Motor Company in the 1950s mechanical engineer Taiichi Ohno was the head of a machine shop that produced parts used on Toyota s vehicle assembly lines. Ohno felt the need to develop a more cost-efficient way to store inventory before the parts were used on the assembly lines. He also wanted to improve the quality of the parts used on Toyota automobiles. By meeting these goals Mr. Ohno transformed the way that Toyota and other companies inventoried their products with his Just in Time JIT method. During the 1950s companies like Toyota retained several large warehouses as space where their inventory could be stored before it was needed on the assembly line. Parts that were used to build their products sat on a shelf in the warehouse for months at a time before being sent to the production area. If a part had a defect it was not discovered until the parts were at the assembly line ready to be used. Parts were produced in mass numbers on large machines and it was possible that an entire shipment might consist of defective parts. As the assembly line worked on a rigid schedule there was no time to look for defects or correct them. As a result the company would often not notice that it had defective parts until after the products were already assembled. To fix these defective products companies sometimes had to disassemble the entire finished unit resulting in huge amounts of lost time and money for the company. Taiichi Ohno believed that the company could avoid these defects by introducing parts to the assembly process as they were needed instead of letting them remain in storage for months. Not only would this make it easier to spot defects but it would also save the company money on storage space. Mr. Ohno developed a system that was able to reduce component assembly times from hours to minutes. In doing so he then sent only the parts that were needed at the assembly
