Agile Manufacturing

Evolution of Agile Manufacturing:

Craft Manufacturing

Mass Production

Lean Manufacturing

Agile Manufacturing

World War 1

World War 2

After 1990s

Continued..
Lacocca Institute in 1991 released a famous document containing information about Vision of manufacturing in 21st century. Developments at Agility Forum at the Lacocca Institute.

Definition of Agile:
The ability of an organization to thrive in the competitive environment of continuous and unaccepted change and to respond quickly to rapid changing markets driven by customer based valuing of products and services.

Dimensions of Agility:
Enriching customers with total solution products. Mastering change and uncertainty. Co-operating to enhance competitiveness. Knowledge driven enterprise.

Manufacturing Agility
The ability to respond to, and create new windows of opportunities in a turbulent market environment driven by individualizing customer requirements cost effectively, rapidly and continuously.

Agile Manufacturing
System to identify and apply practical tools, methodologies, and best practices that enable companies to achieve manufacturing agility with in a turbulent business environment.

Why we need Agile Manufacturing?

Intensified Global Competition. Reduction in Lead time for Product Development, Product Life Cycle, etc.. Diversification of Demand. New Technologies.

The Route to Agile Manufacturing

TOOLS REQUIRED: 1. Tools to explore the business environment. 2. Tools to Identify an organizations current agility capability. 3. Tools to evaluate current performance within the business environment. 4. Tools for benchmarking and identifying best practice.
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Agility Road Map

Agility Transition Strategy Agility Implementation Agility Maturity Agility Performance Measurements Agility Benchmarking.

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Turbulence Analysis
Four key areas to identify change/turbulence and disturbance for an organization: 1. STEEP: Social, Technological, Environmental, Economical, and Political Changes. 2. Intensity of competition specific to organization. 3. The dynamic Changes in customer requirements. 4. Turbulence in Supply Chain.

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Agile Capability, Agility Attributes

Process/Technology People Product Operations Organization

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Product Flexibility
Product Flexibility

Product Configurability

Product Adaptability

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Process Flexibility
Process Flexibility

Process Diversity

Process Sustainability

Process Innovation

Process Configurability

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Operational Responsiveness
Operational Responsiveness

Production Support Responsiveness

Production Responsiveness

Supply and Distribution Responsiveness

New product introduction responsiveness

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People Flexibility
People Flexibility

Employee Skills Flexibility

Skills Replace ability

Employee Skills Utilization

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Organizational Agility
Operational Agility

Strategic Agility

Communication Responsiveness

Human Resource Flexibility

Organizational Flexibility

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Key Potential Solutions

Full Automation Single Main Control Multiple lots/single main control in equipment module (group) Process Control Fault Detection and Classification Integrated Metrology Sophisticated Transportation Eg: AGVs Real Time Scheduling (RTS) Supply Chain Management (SCM)

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