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Agile Manufacturing:
Forging New Frontiers
Paul T. Kidd
1994, ISBN 0-201-63163-6
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Agile manufacturing represents
a quantum leap forward in manufacturing that will enable the West
to gain a real competitive advantage over the Japanese. However,
the term is often regarded as synonymous to either Lean production,
Flexible manufacturing or CIM. This book sets out to define Agile
Manufacturing and to dispel the mistaken beliefs that surround
it.
The book will show you how our traditions,
values and beliefs, based on outdated ideas and philosophies,
block the path to achieving Agile Manufacturing. The book then
maps the way forward by showing you how a revolutionary approach
is needed to designing and implementing manufacturing systems
and technologies, where the emphasis is on levering the skills
and knowledge of people in the organization.
This book will :
- Help you to understand
Agile Manufacturing around four key concepts;
- Show you how systems-thinking
provides you with a basis for agile manufacturing enterprise
design;
- Present you with a
new management accounting and investment appraisal model;
- Provide you with suitable
systems design processes for achieving agile manufacturing;
- Introduce you to concept
of skill and knowledge enhancing technologies.
The author, Paul T. Kidd, is a recognised
authority on agile manufacturing.
Praise for Agile Manufacturing:
Forging New Frontiers
"Danger,
Agile Manufacturing: Forging New Frontiers should not be read
by the timid, faint of heart and complacent, because it challenges
our manufacturing thinking at the core. The good news is that
Paul Kidd rebuilds amidst the shambles of the old world thinking
a new understanding more exciting and empowering than our wildest
dreams. He has made a most significant contribution to theoretical
and practical thought about manufacturing."
Charles M. Savage (author of 5th
Generation Management)
Knowledge Era Enterprises Inc
"Agile Manufacturing:
Forging New Frontiers provides an excellent framework for understanding
and designing appropriate systems in support of agile manufacturing."
Vish Narayanan
General Motors Corp
"Agile Manufacturing:
Forging New Frontiers is a must read for anyone interested in
this field."
Anil Lal
EDS
"Agile
Manufacturing: Forging New Frontiers provides a coherent discussion
of the what, why, who and how of agile manufacturing. The book
will be enlightening to business managers and engineers as they
plan for the 21st century."
Rick Koubeck
School of Industrial Engineering
Purdue University
Details
1994, xvi + 416 pages, hard cover
Published by Addison-Wesley Publishers
ISBN 0-201-63163-6
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