AGILE

MANUFACTURING

Submitted by: ARCHANA KUMARI

05002082013

AGILITY

ECONOMY OF EASE OR
FLEXIBILITY

Agility is defined as the ability to thrive and prosper

in competitive environment of continuous and
unanticipated changes and accordingly respond
fastly to rapidly changing market and customer
demand.
Definition
Agile manufacturing is a flexible manufacturing
model that enables manufacturer to build and
deliver a wider mix of customized products fastly
and cost effectively.
The impact of globalization has led to development
of agile manufacturing. Its a revolutionary approach

Definitions
Agile manufacturing is the science of business
system that integrates management ,technology
and workforce ,making system flexible enough for a
manufacturer to switch over from one component
that is being produced to another component that is
desired to be produced in cost effective manner in
short time within framework of system.

Principles of AM
Customer prosperityenrich the customer
Fitness for changemaster change and
uncertainty
Strengthening resources - workforce and
information
Virtual organization
- cooperate to compete

Customer prosperity
Continuous market analysis
Customer driven quality
Intense customer focus
They must sell solution rather then product
Even Understand competitors products if you have to fully
satisfy your customer.
Example: Hondas new range of bikes comes with an electronic
key containing information that changes the performance of
the machine according to riders choice.

Master change and uncertainty

Flexibility in organizational structure along with flexible
equipment.
Process reengineering
Intense customer focus
Customer driven quality
networks
Employees who works in a agile organization are like the
sensors of the company who will first to recognize
changes.Therefor they must be given local decision making
authority to act on these changes.
Leadership, motivation and trust is necessary in organization
structure.
Excellent communication.
Agile organization will have smaller production and service
centers geographically spread out.

Workforce and information

Exploit all skill and knowledge

Continuous communication
Teaming and trust
Open learning value based compensation
Networks

Example:IBMS worldwide information system linking

their 350 partner companies.

Cooperate to compete
Choose to partner
Partnering codes
Ip management
Virtual work skills
networks
Example: cooperative venture between HP and Intel to
develop the 64-bit Itanium processor.

Sustainable agil manufacturing

Agile manufacturer is more flexible manufacturing model then the flexible manufacturing
itself that enables sustainability to manufacturers to build and deliver a wider mix of
customized products fast and cost effectively.

4 strategies to bring agility in any

organisation
need to develop a strategy to become agile.

focus on the way to achieve integration of organization ,people and technology.

to achieve this integration we need to design interdisciplinary design methodologies

there are many different form of integration .integration of technology is the only
one narrow view of integration.

Agile manufacturing approach

AMA recognizes as an interdisciplinary activity that
requires seamless integration of
technology,management,information system
,workforce etc
It approaches these aspects holistically rather than
taking individually
It encompasses not only critical operation within the
corporation such as product ,process engineering,
administration and marketing sells but also outside
the corporation like vendors, suppliers ,customer
,community, government,
Agile manufacturing includes entire business process
,design
Tooling,machines,material and inventories.

AMA

Reuirement of AM
A flat,fast,flexible organization with excellent
communication
Highly decentralized management that recognizes
knowledge base
Multiskilled and flexible labor force .
Complete mastery of lean production and reverse
engineering.
Flexible tooling and automation
Flexible strategies and relationships with suppliers
and even direct competitors.

Essential Condition for agility

Employees must be properly trained
There needs to be shared vision
There needs to be a whole new set of values for
rapid culture change .
Manager must trust employee.
Overall culture of organization must support risktaking
Not managed as a part of business system.
The reward system needs to be structured.

Advantage of agile manufacturing

Change from standardization to post standardization.
Shift from specialization to collaboration .
Shift from the constraints of time and place
Trend away from concentration towards
diversification.
Movement from maximization to appropriate scale.
Trend away from centralization toward
decentralization.
Lead to sustainability in manufacturing.

AGILE MANUFACTURING a step from

lean manufacturing
Lean manufacturing allows greater price flexibility.
its all about minimizing money in in raw
material,WIP and inventories.
Whereas agile manufacturing is all about
incorporating any change easily and satisfy
customer demand quickly. without significant capital
loss new models can be made.
Lean manufacturing minimizes inventory cost
through efficient purchasing and distribution.
Agile manufacturing uses fewer people and relay
more on automation than lean manufacturing.

Thank you