... work‐in‐process inventories than the previous systems which adjust only the buffer size and do not switch ordering systems. The production system considered in this paper is assumed as follows: © MCB UP Limited 2000 Agile production Just‐in‐time Kanban Ordering systems...

... agile management and time‐based competence management, and study its adoption in small batch discrete parts manufacturing environments with the help of a coarse fact‐finding survey research. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Agile production Human resource utilization Competences Manufacturing...

... to strengthen the organization for agile manufacturing. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Agile production Production planning and control Manufacturing However, as these concepts evolve from a computer‐integrated manufacturing perspective, they strongly ignore logistics, socio‐technical and business...

... within the buyer firm and for enhancing supplier base quality. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Machining Channel relationships Models Agile production Over the past two decades, many industries worldwide have witnessed the emergence of intense international competition, the creation...

... this requirement necessitated implementing major production process improvements. This included finding a way to dyeing at the yarn stage, rather than leaving it to the carpet stage as was normally done in traditional supply. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Lean products Agile production Supply-chain...

... to performance measures and raises some of the issues that need to be developed further in support of the concept of agility. Agile production Organizational change Performance measurement Value chain As companies restructure to develop into global organisations they are driven to develop a clear...

... systems Agile production Small‐to‐medium‐sized enterprises Today, manufacturing organisations are increasingly required to be highly optimised. The ability to respond swiftly and effectively to produce new products and services has become not so much a method of gaining competitive advantage...

... of partners or service providers, the tendering procedures, the allocation and scheduling of tasks among various partners, and the coordination of the various manufacturing functions from design to assembly. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Agile production Competitive advantage Hong Kong Internet...

... Limited 1999 Communications Employee involvement Agile production World class manufacturing Figure 2 illustrates how a workforce (employee) education and employee involvement are building blocks of a strategy to becoming a world‐class competitor in an agile management system...

... to agility. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Agile production Computer technology Internet Organizational change Agility as the term is used herein is the ability of an enterprise to respond quickly and successfully to change. For a company to be agile it must be capable of operating profitably...

... of individual functions such as sales or operations. Process thinking leads to the breakdown of departmental barriers and allows process measures to be reviewed from a customer perspective. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Agile production Strategy Telecommunications industry United Kingdom 1...

... to be implemented. Furthermore, if there is no clear process to regulate how the information should be shared – to what extent and the time schedule, the shared information environment is simply a high tech toy. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Agile production Computer‐aided acquisition and logistic support...

... of the following possible limitations: © MCB UP Limited 1999 Agile production Artificial intelligence Flexibility Problem solving If a rigid company could survive without attention to the sweeping changes in our world markets, there would be no need for agility. Furthermore...

... intelligence (AI) “top down” logic tree structuring, it is time to relook at the true basic needs of the engineering communication issues. Various rule‐based techniques can be incorporated to relate various characteristics to configure products besides enabling activity‐based costing. Agile production...

... in the late 1980s when it was shipping windscreen wiper assemblies to the USA. Since the early 1990s, Trico Australia has been focusing on work reorganisation based on the socio‐technical system approach and has made further gains in all areas within the company. The diffusion of lean/agile production...

.... The paper discusses organisation, technological and human aspects of agility with respect to product design, manufacturing system design and innovation management. Agile production Manufacturing Production management Research The manufacturing world is facing major pressures due...

... 1999 Agile production Globalization Manufacturing systems Organizational structure Manufacturing enterprises are facing critical challenges to reconstruct themselves in order to survive in an ever more volatile competitive market environment. Their success largely depends...