Measuring organisational agility before and after implementation of TADS

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Abstract

The ever increasing competition compels the modern organisations to react quickly in accordance with this kind of dynamic demands of the customers, which is referred to as agility, and currently researchers are addressing these capabilities under the field agile manufacturing. The success of achieving agility lies in designing agile-friendly products. In this direction, very little researches have been pursued. In order to fill this gap, a model called total agile design system (TADS) is proposed. The implementation study conducted to examine this model in a traditional manufacturing company is briefly appraised. A scoring model has been used for measuring agility before and after implementation of TADS. The implementation study revealed the improvement of agility by 10%. This improvement is appreciable in traditional manufacturing organisation where only the mass production-based practices are only currently practiced.

Keywords

Agile manufacturing Agility quantification Computer aided design Implementation study Organisational agility 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of Production EngineeringNational Institute of TechnologyTiruchirappalliIndia
  2. 2.Department of Mechanical EngineeringPSG College of TechnologyCoimbatoreIndia
  3. 3.Department of Production EngineeringPSG College of TechnologyCoimbatoreIndia

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