Agile Manufacturing: The 21st Century Competitive Strategy by Gunasekaran New,#

Agile ManufacturingThe 21st Century Competitive Strategy\nAuthor(s): Angappa Gunasekaran\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Elsevier Health Sciences, United Kingdom\nImprint: Elsevier / The Lancet\nISBN-13: 9780080435671, 978-0080435671\nSynopsis\nAgile 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.\n\nThe scope of the book is to present the undergraduate and graduate students, senior managers and researchers in manufacturing systems design and management, industrial engineering and information technology with .