The Main Objective Of This Study Is To Evaluate The Usefulness Of Agile Manufacturing Systems On Operational And Financial Performance In Automotive Parts Companies In Semnan. It's Probable, Jit Production And Jit Purchasing Strategies Are Factors That Improves Agile Manufacturing System, Therefore, These Two Variables Were Considered In The Research Model. Some Of The Data From This Study, Such As Financial Ratios, Were Extracted From The Financial Statements Of Companies And Some Of The Data Were Collected Through A Questionnaire Method. Because Of The Complexity Of The Model To Data Analysis, Partial Least Squares Method Was Used By Using Smart Pls Software. The Results Showed A Significant Positive Effect Between Jit Purchasing Strategies And Agile Manufacturing System But Jit Production Has No Significant Effect On Agile Manufacturing System. By The Way, Results Indicate Agile Manufacturing Has A Significant And Direct Effect On The Financial Performance And Operational Performance Of Firms Studied.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between agile manufacturing and business performance and cost performance in Fast Moving Consumer industries. This study also examines the mediating effect of cost performance on the relationship between agile manufacturing and business performance. This study analyzes survey data collected from 53 manufacturing companies in fast-moving Consumer industries such as the food industry except sugar and the pharmaceutical industry. Analysis of research hypotheses has been tested using Structural Equation Modeling. The results show that agile manufacturing has a direct and significant relationship with business performance and cost performance. In addition, the results showed that cost performance has a direct and significant relationship with business performance. In addition, a direct effect of cost-performance mediation on the relationship between agile production and business performance has been observed.  In turbulent environments such as the final market of Fast Moving Consumer industries, manufacturing executives need to emphasize the role of agile manufacturing as a comprehensive concept in responding market needs. Agile manufacturing is one of the winning strategies in today's dynamic and competitive environment. The consequences of agile manufacturing must be understood by managers to create a comprehensive conceptualization mechanism to identify the methods to be followed and to identify any imbalances during implementation

One of the most important factors in the survival and development in today changing environment (uncertain and variable) is agility. Fundamental properties of this environment are change and uncertainty. How should organizations act in this environment to preserve the position, gain maximum benefit and progress? Agile manufacturing system is a new solution to cope with these challenges. But since the implementation of agile manufacturing system is very time consuming and costly, one way to evaluate and promote aspects of this system is simulated. This paper aims to analyze and improve the behavior of agile manufacturing system by using system dynamics modeling. After modeling the agile manufacturing system some scenarios has implemented in the model and behavior of key factors verify the model.

Today, the increase in instability and turbulence in organizational environments has made organizations achieve certain levels of agile manufacturing to meet the needs of their customers in unpredictable conditions, as agile manufacturing is considered the major contributor to the success and survival of firms. However, many manufacturing firms do not pay much attention to such issues. This paper was mainly aimed at investigating the role of agile manufacturing in improving organizational productivity. To this end, a number of employees at Moghan Wire & Cable Company were selected as the study sample. The research was an applied cross-sectional survey. Simple random sampling was used to select 134 managers, specialists and employees familiar with agile manufacturing at Moghan Wire & Cable Company. After identifying productivity and agile manufacturing indicators, a questionnaire was designed. The questionnaire’s validity was confirmed by professors and a group of experts at Moghan Wire & Cable Company. Cronbach’s alpha was used to evaluate the questionnaire’s reliability. The questionnaire’s Cronbach’s alpha was 0.90. Descriptive and inferential statistics were applied to analyze the collected data and find the relationships between the variables. The analyses were performed using SPSS 20 and SmartPLS 2. The results showed that high levels of agile manufacturing had a significant influence on productivity at Moghan Wire & Cable Company.

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 been developed called “agile manufacturing”. However according to the literature, this tool has been widely used within the large companies, there is still an ongoing research to prove their applicability in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). This paper aims to assess the feasibility of applying agile manufacturing principles within SMEs using 10 case studies in the UK and Malaysia. It contributes to theory by being able to identify the main barriers in the implementation of agile manufacturing by dividing them into three categories namely “lack of management skills”, “technological limitations” and “lack of workforce experience”. It also provides recommendations for each aforementioned issue so it could be used as guidelines for the industries to employ these methodologies.

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.

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.

The organization can fully benefit from efforts to improve quality through programs such as total quality management. Just-in-time and total quality management combine to support the successful implementation of agile manufacturing programs which, in turn, result in the organization’s ability to respond rapidly and aggressively to changes in customer demand. We contend that adoption of a market orientation combined with just in time, total quality management, and agile manufacturing programs leads to organizational capabilities of relatively low cost operation, high quality product and service production, and rapid response to changes in customer needs and demand. While studies on total quality management implementation appear to focus on identifying the role of total quality management practices on organizational success, total quality management practices are still directed from within the organization. Market orientation, however, requires more external engagement and shares the same ultimate aim as total quality management implementations.

Contemporary manufacturing organizations are facing challenges from two directions. In one direction, newer manufacturing philosophies and technologies emerge to make the existing ones obsolete. In the other direction, today's customers are becoming more and more aggressive in demanding new products and services within a short period of time. In order to meet the challenges that invade from these two directions, today's manufacturing organizations are required to act quickly in accordance with the surrounding competitive situation. Therefore, during the past few years, the manufacturing arena had been orienting towards the relatively new type of paradigm, under the umbrella name," agile manufacturing". But there is a question that does the building agile of an organization to be necessary for activity and competitive in world economy arena. In this article, a fuzzy model based on the need analysis framework of a company to be agile is presented, that used fuzzy concept in the measure and analysis of need to be agile, and too MADM techniques.

The characteristics of today's competitive environment, such as the speed with which products are designed, manufactured, and distributed, and the need for higher responsiveness and lower operational cost, are forcing companies to search for innovative ways to do business. The concept of agile manufacturing has been proposed in response to these challenges for companies. This paper copes with the strategic and tactical level decisions in agile supply chain network design. An efficient mixed-integer linear programming model that is able to consider the key characteristics of agile supply chain such as direct shipments, outsourcing, different transportation modes, discount, alliance (process and information integration) between opened facilities, and maximum waiting time of customers for deliveries is developed. In addition, in the proposed model, the capacity of facilities is determined as decision variables, which are often assumed to be fixed. Computational results illustrate that the proposed model can be applied as a power tool in agile supply chain network design as well as in the integration of strategic decisions with tactical decisions.