Transformation to Agility: Manufacturing in the Marketplace of Unanticipated Change / Edition 1

by Jeffrey Amos

Overview

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 business and manufacturing have forced a review of accepted thinking, and this book is a key text in this evaluation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815380337
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/12/2019
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: Industrial Economics
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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