AGILE MANUFACTURING

AGILE MANUFACTURING

ABSTRACT:

Industries are embracing the concepts of agile manufacturing, which favour nimble principles over the ageing techniques of mass production. These advanced manufacturing concepts are characterised by their ability to allow a rapid response to continuously changing customer requirements. At their very core are flexible automation systems that can reduce product cycle time, increase quality and allow rapid changes in design.

Flexible Automation (FA) is an emerging trend in manufacturing technology in the industries, the recent hi-tech innovations like Concurrent Engineering (CE), Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS), Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM), Intelligent Manufacturing System (IMS), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Rapid Prototyping (RP) have made it a reality to successfully implement flexible automation in industries to achieve the goal of “Maximum Productive Flexibility”. These hi-tech systems, which bring advances in information technology, computers, and telecommunications directly into the factory, have been discussed in this paper.

Agility Manufacturing is not like total quality management or business process reengineering. Agility is fundamentally about a different way of doing business, and put quite simply:

“If you don’t do business the agile way, then ultimately you won’t do any business at all!”

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