جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "agile manufacturing" در نشریات گروه "مدیریت"

The new era of high-speed global economy has caused companies to change operational strategies. In this era, competitive prices and high quality are essential, but not the determinant factors of commercial success; rather, the speed and flexibility to respond quickly to market and customer is regarded as a fundamental principle. Thus, the importance of speed ​​and agility has increased and replaced previous competitive priorities; therefore, this paper evaluates agile manufacturing in small and medium industries of East Azarbaijan Province based on agility capabilities. The population of the study consists of all small and medium-sized firms of East Azarbaijan province. The sample was set 610 companies using the equation of determining the sample size of limited socities. In order to collect data in this study, a researcher made questionnaire was used, which was distributed among the subjects after testing its validity and reliability. In order to analyze the data in the study, fuzzy TOPSIS method was used. The results showed that most groups of small and medium industries based on the agile manufacturing capabilities have a considerable distance from agile manufacturing.

The purpose of this study is to recognize the effective factores on agility of organization and to determine the rank of agility factors in broadcasting organization.. 210 statistical samples were selected from the executive and middle management of broadcasting organization through random sampling. The method of research is survey- descriptive method. Questionnaires used to collect Data، and for analyzing the data، descriptive statistical method and testing the hypotheses have been applied. The search results indicate that the all of factors in IRIB are agile and IRIB is an agile organization.

Value added activity and manufacturing policies are challenging issues in business competitive environment. This research intents to investigate and model the supply chain management of manufacturing industry utilizing the strategies of firms, information technology effect and division of tasks in developing countries. The framework proposed will assist the decision makers on areas of outsourcing and criteria’s of successful alignment plans. The effect of firm size and the chain leader strategy on development of collaboration strategy is a function of industry and its competition environment. The alignment strategies proposed elaborates the role of Mother Company and its related SME’s supply network policy management. The alignment model developed indicates different models of collaboration strategy as a fundamental requirement of a factory’s less manufacturing program. The proposed framework indicates that for differentiation, quality focus and differentiation on cost leadership strategy, agile SME should be selected as a partnership direction, while for cost leadership strategy with different theme of quality and differentiation, the cost leader partner is the most appropriate company.

Agility is perceived as the dominant competitive vehicle for all organizations in an uncertain and ever-changing business environment. Many of the enterprises in present competitive environment need to have strategic plan for achieving agility. For this purpose، they should identify strategies in order to centralize on the agility capabilities and providers. Indeed، each enterprise for achieving agility need to have deferent amount of the capabilities and ensures that the agility providers can satisfy the agility capabilities. The aim of this paper is to create methodology to rank and select the agility providers that raise the agility of enterprises. For this purpose، in this paper a multi-criteria decision makingtechnique is used that composed of the ANP and DEMATEL. Analytic Network Process (ANP) is Relative newmethod in multi-criteria decision making area can systematically consider the interdependence between criteria and alternatives. The DEMATEL techniquecanalsodetermine the cause and effect relationships and the inner dependence among criteria usedto improve the ANP results.

Agile manufacturing as the most modern production system has covered significant portion of literature in operations management. But there is a great vague. whether agile manufacturing is the same as prior concepts but in a new form or it's a completely new concept accompanied with necessary techniques? Lean production and Agile production are two dominant production systems that were studied through literature survey and their dimensions were defined. Then dimensions similarities and differences among these two approaches were investigated. Finally considering the importance of different dimensions, weighted difference between them is demonstrated. Results show that although there are some common features between these two concepts, their emphasis on different aspects has formed a new approach. The proper attention of agile system to nowadays business requirements and continuous change, has distinguished it from other production systems such as lean production system.