The Transition to Agile Manufacturing: Staying Flexible for Competitive Advantage

This is the first book to fully address the manufacturing approach known as agile manufacturing, which involves rapid and flexible responses to customer needs, rapid development of new products and features, and the marketing and distribution of these new products. The Transition to Agile Manufacturing also includes: creating new work systems to achieve organizational performance objectives; the tools, techniques, and practices that reduce cycle time for introducing new products; the new role of the manager as customer advocate, facilitator, and business analyst.