Organizatinal Agility and Agile Manufacturing

Changes in the business environment are leading firms to adopt a new production model termed agile manufacturing. Agile manufacturing, a recently popularised concept, has been advocated as the 21st century manufacturing paradigm. It is seen as the winning strategy to be adopted by manufacturers bracing themselves for dramatic performance enhancements to become national and international leaders in an increasingly competitive market of fast changing customer requirements. The Methodology of this research is archiev type which exploited of various foreign articles and books. The results of this paper indicate that Responding to changes, and taking advantage of them through strategic utilisation of managerial and manufacturing methods and tools, are the pivotal concepts of agile manufacturing

Agility, Agile manufacturing, Lean manufacturing, Flexibility, Change