Agile Manufacturing Transitional Strategies
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This paper provides an overview of the framework and tools developed at the Agile Manufacturing and Enterprise Centre (AMEC) at the University of Liverpool to assist Merseyside SME’s in embracing agility concepts. The framework is based on four main pillars; auditing of company, auditing of the operating environment, benchmarking and learning from best practice. This paper describes the overall structure of the framework, detailing the main elements of the auditing pillars. The paper also describes an agility implementation case study.
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