The characteristics of today's competitive environment, such as the speed with which products are designed, manufactured, and distributed, and the need for higher responsiveness and lower operational cost, are forcing companies to search for innovative ways to do business. The concept of agile manufacturing has been proposed in response to these challenges for companies. This paper copes with t...

This paper explores the recent trends of research and development in modern manufacturing systems. Those trends happen to direct the business activities of this sector towards the globalisation of the usual markets and the creation of a new virtual, agile, and extended production environment whose purpose is to ensure fast, responsive, and adaptable reaction to the new market conditions. This p...

This research looks at the customer focus of agile software development teams. The study is part of a larger study examining how the twelve principles of Beyond Budgeting1 The importance of the customer to agile software development teams operating within large organisations (Augustine, 2005, Highsmith, 2004) and to the organisation as a whole (Gulati, 2007, Gulati and Oldroyd, 2005) is well do...

It is critical in today’s enterprises that manufacturing facilities are not isolated from design, planning, and other business activities and that information flows easily and bidirectionally between these activities. It is also important and cost-effective that COTS (commercial-off-the-shelf) software, databases, and corporate legacy codes are well integrated in the information architecture. F...

A travers ses projets, l’Atelier Inter-établissements de Productique Lorrain (AIPL), en tant que MOA (maître d’ouvrage) et MOE (maître d’œuvre) de rang 1, a la volonté de fournir à ses clients (enseignants, filières de formation, étudiants etc.) des supports didactiques crédibles, à l’échelle d’une infrastructure industrielle réelle agile de production de biens et de services. Dans ce contexte ...

Abstract: Inventory control systems development is one of the most appealing issues of the supply chain management which have recently been studied by academicians and practitioners. In this paper, an inventory management framework and deterministic cost models within the context of this framework are structured for effective supply chain (SC) in an agile environment. To do so, we propose a thr...

Denial of Service (DoS) attacks serve to diminish the ability of the network to perform its intended function over time. As DoS attacks may permeate the veil of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices from the broader internet, it is vital that these devices are able to mitigate these attacks. If such a network of IoT devices were to fail during time of need, lives of patients, war fighters, or th...

Nowadays, in turbulent and violate global markets, agility has been considered as a fundamental characteristic of a supply chain needed for survival. To achieve the competitive edge, companies must align with suppliers and customers to streamline operations, as well as agility beyond individual companies. Consequently Agile Supply Chain (ASC) is considered as a dominant competitive advantage. H...

To thrive in today's rapidly evolving and unpredictable business climate, manufacturers must be able to respond quickly effectively market demands for products while maintaining high-quality standards. This is where agile manufacturing comes in. As a result of achieving flexibility technology processes, characterized by its ability reflect with demand that reflection. It can also expressed as t...

Today’s enterprises need to be responsive to competitors, the market, organizational changes and changing customer requirements and need to response immediately. Agile enterprises are able to scope with increasing changes, uncertainty and unpredictability in the business environment. Although, the original concept of an agile manufacturing was popularized 1991 by the Iacocca Institute (Iacocca ...