Agile manufacturing : the 21st century competitive strategy / A. Gunasekaran.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gunasekaran, A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Flexible manufacturing systems.

System design.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (821 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Elsevier, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Agile manufacturing is defined as the capability of surviving and prospering in a competitive environment of continuous and unpredictable change by reacting quickly and effectively to changing markets, driven by customer-designed products and services. Critical to successfully accomplishing AM are a few enabling technologies such as the standard for the exchange of products (STEP), concurrent engineering, virtual manufacturing, component-based hierarchical shop floor control system, information and communication infrastructure, etc. The scope of the book is to present the undergradu

Contents:

Front Cover; Agile Manufacturing: The 21st Century Competitive Strategy; Copyright Page; Preface; CONTENTS; Chapter 9. Product Development Strategies for Agility; Part I - Introduction to Agile Manufacturing; Chapter 1. Agile Manufacturing as the 21 st Century Strategy for Improving Manufacturing Competitiveness; Chapter 2. Agile Manufacturing: Concepts and Framework; Part II - Design and Development of Agile Manufacturing Systems; Chapter 3. A Strategic Approach to Develop Agile Manufacturing; Chapter 4. BM_Virtual Enterprise Architecture Reference Model

Chapter 5. Integrated Product/Process Development (IPPD) Through Robust Design Simulation (RDS)Chapter 6. Developing the Agile Enterprise; Chapter 7. Towards Building of Knowledge-Base in Indian Corporations: Some Strategic Directions; Chapter 8. Enhancing Agility in Manufacturing: The Role of QFD; Chapter 10. Managing People in Agile Organisations; Part III - Information Technology/Systems in Agile Manufacturing; Chapter 11. Application of Information Technology in Agile Manufacturing; Chapter 12. Information Systems for Agile Manufacturing Environment in the Post-Industrial Stage

Chapter 13. Management of Complexity and Information FlowChapter 14. An Object-Oriented Optimization-based Software for Agile Manufacturing in Process Industries; Chapter 15. Application of Multimedia in Agile Manufacturing; Chapter 16. Computational Intelligence in Agile Manufacturing Engineering; Chapter 17. Computer Applications in Agile Manufacturing; Chapter 18. Secure Communication in Distributed Manufacturing Systems; Part IV - Supply Chain Management in Agile Manufacturing; Chapter 19. Agile Supply Chain Management; Chapter 20. Engineering the Agile Supply Chain

Chapter 21. Information Technologies for Virtual Enterprise and Agile ManagementChapter 22. Early Supplier Involvement: A Design-Based Sourcing; Chapter 23. Information Technologies in Supply Chain Management; Chapter 24. Enterprise Integration and Management in Agile Organizations; Chapter 25. Agility, Adaptability and Leanness: A Comparison of Concepts and a Study of Practice; Part V- Operations of Agile Manufacturing Systems; Chapter 26. Computer Control of Agile Manufacturing Systems; Chapter 27. Computer Aided Process Planning for Agile Manufacturing Environment

Chapter 28. Aggregate Capacity Planning and Production Line Design/Redesign in Agile ManufacturingChapter 29. The Control Problems of Agile Manufacturing; Chapter 30. Contingency-Driving Autonomous Cellular Manufacturing - Best Practice in the 21st Century; Chapter 31. Role of IT/IS in Physically Distributed Manufacturing Enterprises; Chapter 32. The Method of Successive Assembly System Design Based on Cases Studies within the Swedish Automotive Industry; Part VI - Strategic Approach for Agile Manufacturing; Chapter 33. Reengineering and Agile Manufacturing Development

Chapter 34. Corporate Knowledge Management in Agile Manufacturing

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-05869-6

9786611058692

0-08-052688-8

OCLC:

476111631