int. j. prod. res.‚ 2001‚ vol. 39‚ no. 16‚ 3561±3600 A review of agile manufacturing systems LUIS M. SANCHEZy and RAKESH NAGIy* 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. While agility means di erent things to di erent enterprises under di erent contexts‚ the following elements capture its essential concept: agility is characterized by cooperativeness and synergism
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Davidson‚ Paul. "Lean Manufacturing Helps Companies Survive." USA Today 02 Nov. 2009‚ Money sec.: 1b. Print. Sealy was the world’s top mattress maker in 2009. Before implementing a newer method of manufacturing they were inefficient‚ wasting resources‚ and often times so sloppy they were damaging this products minutes after they were produced. Sealy was able to remain profitable during the recession by switching to a lean manufacturing system. They were able to improve their inefficiencies
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The Manufacturing Consent – Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky born on the 7th of December 1928 in the midst of the American “The Great Depression” singlehandedly is known to have transformed the face of linguistics. His most noted contribution to generative grammar is the book “Syntactic Structures” elaborating on things like "the initial state of the language learner" etc. Born in a Jewish family‚ his father was a translator of the Hebrew text‚ this in a way invoked the love of language in his and he
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Integration‚ School of Industrial and Manufacturing Science‚ Centre for Decision Engineering‚ Cranfield University‚ Cranfield‚ UK Abstract Purpose – The aim of this research paper is to present the critical factors that constitute a successful implementation of lean manufacturing within manufacturing SMEs. Design/methodology/approach – A combination of comprehensive literature review and visits to ten SMEs based in the East of the UK were employed in the study. The companies’ practices were observed to highlight
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Wriston Manufacturing We identified seven factors contributing to the variance in overhead costs from plant to plant. However‚ in order to best understand how these factors contribute to inter-plant variance‚ it is helpful to first take note of the individual components of total overhead. As noted in the case‚ fixed overhead includes depreciation‚ utilities‚ salaries‚ and fringe benefit costs of employees‚ whereas variable costs consist of first-line supervisors’ wages‚ costs of set-up labor‚ scrap
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wood doors manufacturing‚ goal which will be induced by increases in profitability - necessary both for the financial survival in the immediate term and for the viability of an IPO planned for 2007. 2.What seems to be the immediate problem?Forefront Holdings consists in two different companies: Forefront Manufacturing and Forefront Contracting. For the last 15 year the financial situation were consolidated‚ but in 2005 when were divided it was discovered that Forefront Manufacturing was affected
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Threats) analysis has been a useful basic frame work for strategic planning and organizational performance management. This study will discuss the two internal components of SWOT analysis method; the Strengths and Weaknesses. The study will focus on using the traditional SWOT analysis method to conduct an internal analysis for an IT System Integrator company operating in Egypt. A brief about the Information Technology (IT) market revolution in Egypt will be mentioned to provide background information
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organization? Are they the same in any organizations? Understanding the importance of quality‚ many organizations have appointed a Quality Manager to manage quality operation as a whole. In order to study the contributions of TQM‚ take a medium-size manufacturing as an example‚ what should a quality manager do to improve the overall performance? In this article‚ playing a role of Quality Manager‚ I will propose my recommendations based on three main points: understand quality and improvement‚ understand
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Agile Manufacturing In 1991‚ an industry-led study‚ sponsored by the United States Navy Mantech Program‚ and supported by the Iacocca Institute at Lehigh University in the United States‚ was conducted in order to originate a new paradigm for successful manufacturing enterprises. The report of that study‚ entitled “21st Century Manufacturing Enterprise Strategy”‚ coined the term “agile manufacturing” History of Agile Manufacturing The report which is entitled “21st Century Manufacturing Enterprise
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Answer 1. What do you think has been the contribution of the marketing function‚ the product design function and the operations function to the success of Swatch? Swatch is a good example of the way three sets of competitive abilities in a company relate to each other. The three key contributions to Swatch’s success (or the three important micro operations) are • the way they have developed their products and services. • the way they have positioned themselves in their market. • the way
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