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Introduction
Manufacturing industry is on the verge of a major paradigm shift. This shift will take us away from mass production, way beyond lean manufacturing, into a world of Agile Manufacturing (5)
Very short product life-cycles, development time, and production lead times are required. Customers want to treated and individuals (4)
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A strategy to become an Agile Manufacturing enterprise. A strategy to exploit agility to achieve competitive advantage. Integration of organization, people and technology into a coordinated interdependent system which is our competitive advantage. An interdisciplinary design methodology to achieve the integration of Organization, people and technology. (5)
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. (5)
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. (5)
Interdisciplinary Design
Consider how we address organization, people and technology, and other issues in the design of manufacturing systems, so we can have systems that are better for performance, better for the environment, and better for the people . Go beyond the automation paradigm of the industrial era, to use technology in a way that makes human skill, knowledge, and intelligence more effective and productive, and that allows us to tap into the creativity and talent of all our people. (5)
The Challenges:
1. Break dependency on scale and economies of scale (reducing setup costs in key). 2. Produce vehicles in low volumes at a reasonable cost. 3. Guarantee the three day car. 4. Replace large centralized with distributed clusters of mini-assembly plants located near customers. 5. Be able to reconfigure components in many different ways.
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Make work stimulating. Turn the customer into a prosumer, an ugly neologism that means proactive something; the idea is that the customer will take an active role in the product design by, for example, configuring options at a computer in a dealer showroom. Streamline ordering systems and establish close relationships with suppliers. Manage the massive volumes of data generated by the production system so as to be able to analyze that data quickly and agilely (3)
Exercise
War has broken out somewhere in the world, and the US becomes involved. Suddenly, all branches of our armed forces need more conventional munitions-and they need them immediately. How can suppliers meet this kind of unpredictable demand? (2)
Summery
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 our customers and suppliers. Our customers will not only be able to gain access to our products and services, but will also be able to easily assess and exploit our competencies, so enabling them to use these competencies to achieve the things that they are seeking. (5)
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