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Agile Manufacturing System
Agile manufacturing, a recently popularised concept, has been advocated as the 21st century manufacturing paradigm. The original concept was proposed in 1991 by a group of researchers at Iaccoca Institute, Lehigh University.
Agile manufacturing has been defined as the capability of surviving and prospering in the competitive environment of continuous and unpredictable change by reacting quickly and effectively to changing markets, driven by customer-designed products and services.
As we are approaching the 21st century, manufacturing success and survival are becoming increasingly difficult to ensure. this fact is rooted in the emergence of a new business era that has "change" of its major characteristics. This critical situation has led to a major revision in the business priorities, strategic vision, and viability of conventional and even relatively contemporary models and methods developed so far. The emphasis is now on adaptability to change in the business environment and a proactive way of approaching market and customer needs through newly evolved cooperation methods such as virtual organization (Gunasekaran).
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