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AGILE MANUFACTURING
Submitted by guidance of SUSHIL KUMAR Roll ASS.Professor Manufacturing Engineering Manufacturing B.Tech (4th year) No:
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CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that the seminar report entitled agile manufacturing submitted by Mr. sushil kumar , in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY in Manufacturing Engineering is a bonafide seminar work carried out by him under my guidance. In my opinion the work fulfils the requirements for which it is being submitted.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I sincerely acknowledge the help and guidance I received from MR.A.K.SOOD without which it would have been difficult to complete this seminar work. His constant encouragement and words of motivation have been a source of inspiration for me. I express my sincere gratitude to him. I also express my gratitude to the library staffs who have helped me from time to time as and when required.
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
The world as a whole is now adjusting itself to the competitive realities of a new set of competitive standards. In the old economy competitive success was based almost exclusively on the ability to improve productivity .In the new economy, organization and nations compete in quality, variety, customization, timely response etc. So manufactures must be able to develop and produce customized products rapidly to meet ever changing customer needs to be ahead of others. Methods to meet these requirements are the basics of agile engineering. Agile Engineering or Manufacturing is a new concept of management originating from USA aimed at carving a new path for business enterprises. The emphasis is to make the organization quick shift in style of working to adopt the changes in market environment in order to remain the business leader ahead of competitors. Thus the ability to use and exploit a fundamental resource-knowledge and imagination is the impetus behind agile organizations.
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Peter Drucker wrote There is only one valid definition of business purpose, to create a satisfied customer who determines what the business enterprise has two and only two basic functions: marketing and innovation. Success globally means faster reach to market, sharper response to customer needs and exploiting the resources efficiently to develop the product. The emphasis is to make the organization quick, swift and agile in catching customers requirements and to treat it to be very purpose of business. It requires a holistic business approach and reorganizing the organizational structure to make it cross functional and enabling.
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The above cycle gets modified in the case of organizational learning as follows. 3.1.2 LINKAGE OF LEARNING WITH PERFORMANCE Learning without thought is labor lost and thought without learning is perilous Knowledge by itself produces by itself produces nothing .It can become more productive only when it is integrated into a task. And that is why knowledge society of organization. Learning curve is defined as empirical relationships between the numbers of units produced and the numbers of labor hours required to producing them. The average labor hours will come down as units produced goes up as shown below. The only expertise these days fast changes is the expertise to garner expertise.
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matters. Online training services helped reduce travel and facilities cost. The firm also reduced paperwork and costly error in tasks such as expense reporting, benefits, adjustments and hiring. 2. Empowered Employees: Employees on the Agile network can take control of their careers and benefits information by receiving and manipulating their personal employment records on line, from the office or home. 3. Improved Productivity: With the flexibility to find the needed information in one place, available at anytime anywhere, Agile employees can focus on their core activities. For HR,workforce optimization solution reduce routine task and allow
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PRINIPLES Delivering values to customer Being ready for change Valuing human High Yes
LEAN
society was characterized by high volume production of small variety of items. An information society however is capable of small production runs of multiple items which match individual needs. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. The second is the shift from specialization to collaboration, with many aspects of The third is the shift from constraints of time and place. The fourth is the trend away from concentration and diversification. From centralization to decentralization Finally leading to sustainability in manufacturing society becoming increasingly composite and multidisciplinary.
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSION
The new economy requires management technologies, work force that are flexible and roboust, agile engineering. The new markets standards would not have been possible without an equally new role for technology. Thus agile manufacturing techniques has fully exploited the flexible new technology, by using it in conjunction with equally flexible workforce and organizational formats, have raised the level of competition and increased the range of competitive standards.
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REFERENCES
1. www.agilesolutions .com 2. www.mit. org 3. Conferences on Agile Engineering 4. Daniel Whitney, Agile Pathfinders A Progress Report, MIT Press, 1995 5. www.agile.com
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