Agile Manufacturing:
Forging New
Frontiers
Paul T. Kidd
1994, ISBN 0-201-63163-6
1.1 Introduction
The term Agile Manufacturing
came into common usage with the publication of the Iacocca Institute
report 21st Century Manufacturing Enterprise Strategy (Iacocca
Institute 1991). Agile Manufacturing has been used to refer to
other concepts such as flexible manufacturing and lean production,
as though these were all synonymous with one another. What we
will present in this Chapter is a definition of Agile Manufacturing
and its conceptual framework. |