Agile Manufacturing

In an ever-changing, dynamic and turbulent business environment, being agile is a necessary condition for gaining a competitive advantagein global markets. Agile manufacturing, therefore, will be the battle ground for such competition among companies and their supply chains for years to come. Agility, on the other, will be a critical enabler for managing time as a major element of generating and sustaining a competitive advantage. It is widely believed that agile manufacturing and time based competition is a wonderful marriage that should never be divorced. You will find this obvious in the chapters of this book. These chapters address the two philosophies of agile manufacturing and time-based technologies in great details. Thechapters are written by expert academics and practitioners whose work on the subject has been cited extensively in the Operations and supply chain management literature. There is no doubt that academics as well as practitioners will find this book interesting and useful reading in their journey to exploring agile manufacturing.