Agile manufacturing: a management and operational framework

H Sharifi, G Colquhoun, I Barclay… - Proceedings of the …, 2001 - journals.sagepub.com
Manufacturing companies are now operating in fast-moving commercial environments
where unanticipated threats and opportunities are the order of the day. Agile manufacturing …

Agile manufacturing: framework and its empirical validation

R Dubey, A Gunasekaran - The International Journal of Advanced …, 2015 - Springer
The agile manufacturing is one of the operational strategies which organizations have
adopted to beat environmental uncertainties resulting from worldwide economic recession …

Agile manufacturing research: accomplishments and opportunities

R DeVOR, R Graves, JJ MILLS - IIE transactions, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
Agile manufacturing is a new expression that is used to represent the ability of a producer of
goods and services to thrive in the face of continuous change. These changes can occur in …

Agile manufacturing in practice‐Application of a methodology

H Sharifi, Z Zhang - International journal of operations & production …, 2001 - emerald.com
An evolutionary transformation of business environment, with change as a main
characteristic, is taking place. Manufacturing companies, even those operating in relatively …

Agile manufacturing: one size does not fit all

JP Shewchuk - Strategic Management of the Manufacturing Value …, 1998 - Springer
Agile Manufacturing has emerged as a new paradigm for coping with the dynamic and
turbulent manufacturing environments of the twenty-first century. Much work has been done …

A methodology for achieving agility in manufacturing organisations

Z Zhang, H Sharifi - International journal of operations & production …, 2000 - emerald.com
As we approach the twenty‐first century, manufacturing success and survival are becoming
more and more difficult to ensure. This fact is rooted in the emergence of a new business era …

Agile manufacturing: a taxonomy of strategic and technological imperatives

A Gunasekaran, YY Yusuf - International Journal of Production …, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
Agile Manufacturing (AM) is a relatively new operations concept that is intended to improve
the competitiveness of firms. Manufacturing/service processes based on AM are …

Research agenda for agile manufacturing

FB Vernadat - International Journal of Agile Management Systems, 1999 - emerald.com
Manufacturing agility can be defined as the ability to closely align manufacturing enterprise
systems to changing business needs to achieve competitive performance. Agility has …

The evolution of agile manufacturing

L Jin‐Hai, AR Anderson, RT Harrison - … Process Management Journal, 2003 - emerald.com
This paper provides an exploration of the concept and content of agile manufacturing (AM). It
describes the nature of the content of AM and synthesises the literature to propose a …

A review of agile manufacturing systems

LM Sanchez, R Nagi - International journal of production research, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
About a decade ago, the agile manufacturing paradigm was formulated in response to the
constantly changing'new economy'and as a basis for returning to global competitiveness …