Agile Manufacturing

The agile manufacturing enterprise can be defned

along four dimensions:
1. value-based pricing strategies that enrich
customers;
2. co-operation that enhances competitiveness;
3. organizational mastery of change and
uncertainty; and
4. investments that leverage the impact of people
and information.
That is, agility has four underlying principles:
delivering value to the customers;
being ready for change;
valuing human knowledge and skills;
and forming virtual partnerships
Agile manufacturing :
Agility in action represents a paradox, because
firms compete and co-operate simultaneously.
Agility, as the conventional meaning, denotes a
fast-moving, agile actor. As described by the
proponents of the agility concept, agile
corporations are able to rapidly re-organize and
even reconfigure themselves in order to capitalize
on immediate, and perhaps only temporary,
market opportunities