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What is Agile

Manufacturing?

Agile manufacturing is a method for


manufacturing which combine our organization,
people and technology into an integrated and
coordinated whole.

Why do we need to be
agile
Global

Competition is intensifying.

Mass

markets are fragmenting


into niche markets.

Cooperation

among companies is
becoming necessary, including
companies who are in direct
competition with each other.

Why do we need to be
agile cont:

Customers are expecting:


1.

Low volume products

2.

High quality products

3.

Custom products

Very short product life-cycles,


development time, and
production lead times are
required.
Customers want to treated and
individuals

Keys to agility and


flexibility

To determine customer needs quickly


and continuously reposition the
company against its competitors.
To design things quickly based on those
individual needs.
To put them into full scale, quality ,
production quickly.
To respond to changing volumes and
mix quickly.
To respond to a crisis quickly. (1)

Nuts and Bolts

Enriching the customer


1.

Replace large centralized with distributed


clusters of mini-assembly plants located
near customers.

Cooperating to enhance competition.


1.

Internalcross-functional teams,
empowerment.

2.

Externalmanaging the supply chain.

Nuts and Bolts

Organizing to manage change and


uncertainty
1.

Rapid reconfiguration of plant and


facilities.

2.

Rapid decision making-shallow


empowered.

Leveraging people and information.


1.

Distribution of authority, resources, and


rewards.

Interdisciplinary Design
Interdisciplinary design will form the
basis of designing Agile
Manufacturing systems in the new
knowledge intensive era.
Interdisciplinary design is one
of the most important challenges to
that managers and systems
designers and integrators will face in
the years ahead, it leads us to new
approaches and new ways of working
and of thinking.

Interdisciplinary Design
To successfully adopt an
interdisciplinary design method,
we need to:
Challenge our accepted design
strategies and develop new and
better approaches.
Question our established and
cherished beliefs and theories,
and develop new ones to replace
those that know longer have any
validity.

transition to Agile
manufacturing?

Make the break with the things that are wrong


with the way we do things today.

Examine and define the underlying conceptual


framework on which Agile Manufacturing
enterprises will be built.

Real world example:

The Industry: Japanese car makers

The goal: To produce the three day car,


(three days from customer order for a
customized car to dealer delivery)

Real world ex. Cont.


The Challenges:

The challenges:
1.

2.
3.
4.

5.

Break dependency on scale and


economies of scale (reducing setup
costs in key).
Produce vehicles in low volumes at
a reasonable cost.
Guarantee the three day car.
Replace large centralized with
distributed clusters of miniassembly plants located near
customers.
Be able to reconfigure components
in many different ways.

Summary

Agile Manufacturing enterprises will be


capable of rapidly responding to changes in
customer demand.

They will be able to take advantage of the


windows of opportunities that appear in the
market place.

With Agile Manufacturing we will be able to


develop new ways of interacting with
customers and suppliers.

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