Abstract
In unpredicted industrial environment, being able to adapt quickly and effectively to the changing is key in gaining a competitive advantage in the global market. Agile manufacturing evolves new ways of running factories to react quickly and effectively to changing markets, driven by customized requirement. Agility in manufacturing can be successfully achieved via integration of information system, people, technologies, and business processes. This article presents the conceptual model of agility in three dimensions named: driving factor, enabling technologies and evaluation of agility in manufacturing system. The conceptual model was developed based on a review of the literature. Then, the paper demonstrates the agility evaluation by developing a multi-grade assessment model. This model can be used by decision maker to evaluate their current degree of agility. Lastly, the paper examined the conceptual model of evaluation in the State Company for Vegetable Oils Industry in Iraq. The calculation show that the State Company for Vegetable Oils Industry is very agile.
Highlights
Industrial companies adopt modern manufacturing strategies to gain a competitive advantage in the global industrial market
Agile manufacturing is a production system that is developed in response to unexpected changes and dynamic demand as a basis to provide sustainable competitive advantage
This paper explain the concept of agility via three dimensions named: agility drivers, agility enablers and agility evaluation
Summary
Industrial companies adopt modern manufacturing strategies to gain a competitive advantage in the global industrial market. There was a need for a flexible manufacturing that can successfully deal with unpredictable and continuous change in the operational environment in order to remain competitive. In this way, agile manufacturing was developed as a new manufacturing paradigm beyond the conventional manufacturing systems. If agile manufacturing implemented properly, speed in the industrial market allowed manufactures to be a head over their competitors. The paper demonstrates the agility evaluation by developing a multi-grade assessment model.
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