Agile Manufacturing : The 21st Century Competitive Strategy

Preface v PART I - INTRODUCTION TO AGILE MANUFACTURING Agile Manufacturing as the 21st Century Strategy for Improving Manufacturing Competitiveness 3(22) Henrique Luiz Correa Agile Manufacturing: Concepts and Framework 25(28) A. Gunasekaran R. McGaughey V. Wolstencroft PART II - DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS A Strategic Approach to Develop Agile Manufacturing 53(20) Jens O. Riis John Johansen BM_Virtual Enterprise Architecture Reference Model 73(22) G.D. Putnik Integrated Product/Process Development (IPPD) Through Robust Design Simulation (RDS) 95(18) Daniel P. Schrage Dimitri N. Mavris Developing the Agile Enterprise 113(18) John Bessant David Knowles David Francis Sandra Meredith Towards Building of Knowledge-Base in Indian Corporations: Some Strategic Directions 131(26) R.P. Mohanty Enhancing Agility in Manufacturing: The Role of QFD 157(18) David Ginn Mohamed Zairi P.k. Ahmed Product Development Strategies for Agility 175(18) Sudi Sharifi Kulwant S. Pawar Managing People in Agile Organisations 193(12) David Francis PART III - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY/SYSTEMS IN AGILE MANUFACTURING Application of Information Technology in Agile Manufacturing 205(24) Henry C.W. Lau Eric T.T. Wong Information Systems for Agile Manufacturing Environment in the Post-Industrial Stage 229(18) S. Subba Rao A. Nahm Management of Complexity and Information Flow 247(18) E. Szczerbicki An Object-Oriented Optimization-based Software for Agile Manufacturing in Process Industries 265(14) M. Draman I.K. Altinel N. Bajgoric A.T. Unal B. Birgoren Application of Multimedia in Agile Manufacturing 279(18) Ronald E. McGaughey Computational Intelligence in Agile Manufacturing Engineering 297(20) Kesheng Wang Computer Applications in Agile Manufacturing 317(20) M.A. Pego Guerra W.J. Zhang Secure Communication in Distributed Manufacturing Systems 337(22) Istvan Mezgar Zoltan Kincses PART IV - SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT IN AGILE MANUFACTURING Agile Supply Chain Management 359(18) J. Sarkis S. Talluri Engineering the Agile Supply Chain 377(20) Denis R. Towill Information Technologies for Virtual Enterprise and Agile Management 397(20) Nijaz Bajgoric Early Supplier Involvement: A Design-Based Sourcing 417(20) Shad Dowlatshahi Information Technologies in Supply Chain Management 437(24) Alexander V. Smirnov Charu Chandra Enterprise Integration and Management in Agile Organizations 461(22) F.B. Vernadat Agility, Adaptability and Leanness: A Comparison of Concepts and a Study of Practice 483 Hiroshi Katayama David Bennett PART V - OPERATIONS OF AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS Computer Control of Agile Manufacturing Systems 409(106) Robert W. Brennan Computer Aided Process Planning for Agile Manufacturing Environment 515(20) Neelesh K. Jain Vijay K. Jain Aggregate Capacity Planning and Production Line Design/Redesign in Agile Manufacturing 535(24) Z. -S. Hua P. Banerjee The Control Problems of Agile Manufacturing 559(24) B. Ilyasov L. Ismagilova R. Valeeva Contingency-Driving Autonomous Cellular Manufacturing - Best Practice in the 21st Century 583(18) S. -J. Song Role of IT/IS in Physically Distributed Manufacturing Enterprises 601(20) Walter W. C. Chung Michael F.S. Chan The Method of Successive Assembly System Design Based on Cases Studies within the Swedish Automotive Industry 621(24) T. Engstrom D. Jonsson L. Medbo PART VI - STRATEGIC APPROACH FOR AGILE MANUFACTURING Reengineering and Agile Manufacturing Development 645(20) G. Doumeingts H. Kromm Y. Ducq S. Kleinhans Corporate Knowledge Management in Agile Manufacturing 665(20) Michael Thie Dragan Stokic Agile Manufacturing Strategic Options 685(18) Vicky Manthou Maro Vlachopoulou Virtual Enterprise Engineering in Support of Distributed and Agile Manufacture 703(32) R.H. Weston R. Harrison A.A. West Putting the Pieces Together Using Standards 735(24) Ricardo Jardim-Goncalves Adolfo Steiger-Garcao Enterprise Integration and Management 759(26) R.H. Weston A. Hodgson Gaining Agility Through Supply Chain Management 785(24) Tareq Suleman Mohamed Zairi Author Index 809