1st Edition
Transformation to Agility Manufacturing in the Marketplace of Unanticipated Change
By Jeffrey Amos
Copyright 1998
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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History is replete with examples of one political system replacing another, one scientific discovery invalidating another – and this cycle has occurred repeatedly in the production of goods and products for society. This book, first published in 1998, examines the massive transition currently taking place: the decline of the system of mass manufacturing. Various global changes in American... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Stages of Manufacturing 3. Manufacturing in the 21st Century 4. Methodology 5. Development of a Theory of Agility 6. Case 1: Arrowplane and Composit Materials, Inc. 7. Case 2: Thompson Enterprises and Bilmo Incorporated 8. Agility and the Global Aerospace Industry 9. Creating a Measure of Agility 10. Analysis and Model Revisions
Biography
Jeffrey Amos
