modern manufacturing is under ever increasing pressure to develop solutions for highly complextasks. in order to maintain the business survival in a highly competitive environment, it is vital toobtain customer satisfaction, which requires developing products with shorter lifecycles and higherquality meanwhile to reduce the production costs. in order to achieve such objectives a paradigmhas bee...

This paper provides a review and introduction on agile manufacturing. Tactics of agile manufacturing are mapped into different production areas eight-construct latent : manufacturing equipment and technology, processes technology and know-how, quality and productivity improvement, production planning and control, shop floor management, product design and development, supplier relationship manag...

Modern manufacturing is under ever increasing pressure to develop solutions for highly complex tasks. In order to maintain the business survival in a highly competitive environment, it is vital to obtain customer satisfaction, which requires developing products with shorter lifecycles and higher quality meanwhile to reduce the production costs. In order to achieve such objectives a paradigm has...

During the recent years, the manufacturing world has been witnessing the application of agile manufacturing paradigm. The literature review reported in this paper was carried out to study this progression. This literature review was carried out in two phases. In the first phase, the literature was reviewed to trace the origin of agile manufacturing paradigm and identify its enablers. Further, d...

Abstract The aim of this paper is to describe characteristics agile manufacturing and analyse the needs benefits under conditions uncertainty market turbulence. It also describes four main changes in production environment which were implemented thanks methods, compares lean manufacturing, while describing their intersections differences achieving set goals. conclusion summarises advantages ide...

The exibility required of an agile manufacturing system must be achieved largely through computer software. The system's control software must be adaptable to new products and to new system components without becoming unreliable or diicult to maintain. This requires designing the software speciically to facilitate future changes. As part of the Agile Manufacturing Project at Case Western Reserv...

Agent based modeling and simulation consider the behavior of agents acting in a system. The agents' interactions result in changing the agent’s behavior, the whole agent based system, and its environment. In this study, the manufacturing, sale, and receiving orders behaviors pertinent to manufacturing and sale agents acting across a pharmaceutical supply chain of an Iranian manufacturing medici...

Modern manufacturing is under ever increasing pressure to develop solutions for highly complex tasks. In order to maintain the business survival in a highly competitive environment, it is vital to obtain customer satisfaction, which requires developing products with shorter lifecycles and higher quality meanwhile to reduce the production costs. In order to achieve such objectives a paradigm has...

In this paper we present an agent-based fractal model of agile manufacturing enterprises. The agent-based model can be applied to all levels of the agile enterprise. A game-theoretic decisionmaking framework is also presented that considers various combinations of local and global objectives of the agents. Research issues in modeling of, and distributed decision-making in, agile manufacturing e...