AGILE MANUFACTURING AND ITS IMPLEMENTAT
KONGU ENGINEERING COLLEGE PERUNDURAI, ERODE-638052.
AGILE MANUFACTURING
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PAPER SUBMITTED BY
R.RAGUPATHIRAJA (25ME100) Pre-final year BE-Mechanical Engineering.
ABSTRACT
As we transition into the twenty-first century there are radical changes taking place that are reshaping the industrial landscape of western economies. The marketplace has become truly global. Customers are requiring smaller quantities of more customized products. Customers want to be treated individually. Most companies have much wider product ranges, are introducing more new products more quickly and are focusing their marketing. Of special note is the concept known as agile manufacturing, not as a synonym for lean production, but as a new concept which challenges lean production and leads to the modification or even abandonment of lean concepts. Agility is the ability to thrive and prosper in a competitive environment of continuous and unanticipated change, to respond quickly to rapidly changing markets driven by customer-based valuing of products and services. This paper introduces a design for agile manufacturing work cells intended for light mechanical assembly of products made from similar components (i.e. parts families). We define agile manufacturing as the ability to accomplish rapid changeover from the assembly of one product to the assembly of another product. An interdisciplinary design methodology to achieve the integration of Organization, people and technology.
1.0 INTRODUCTION
In the past, production was geared toward high-volume production of a single product. In today’s market, however, the emphasis is moving toward
AGILE MANUFACTURING
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PAPER SUBMITTED BY
R.RAGUPATHIRAJA (25ME100) Pre-final year BE-Mechanical Engineering.
ABSTRACT
As we transition into the twenty-first century there are radical changes taking place that are reshaping the industrial landscape of western economies. The marketplace has become truly global. Customers are requiring smaller quantities of more customized products. Customers want to be treated individually. Most companies have much wider product ranges, are introducing more new products more quickly and are focusing their marketing. Of special note is the concept known as agile manufacturing, not as a synonym for lean production, but as a new concept which challenges lean production and leads to the modification or even abandonment of lean concepts. Agility is the ability to thrive and prosper in a competitive environment of continuous and unanticipated change, to respond quickly to rapidly changing markets driven by customer-based valuing of products and services. This paper introduces a design for agile manufacturing work cells intended for light mechanical assembly of products made from similar components (i.e. parts families). We define agile manufacturing as the ability to accomplish rapid changeover from the assembly of one product to the assembly of another product. An interdisciplinary design methodology to achieve the integration of Organization, people and technology.
1.0 INTRODUCTION
In the past, production was geared toward high-volume production of a single product. In today’s market, however, the emphasis is moving toward