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Thirty-criteria-based agility assessment: a case study in an Indian pump manufacturing organisation

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The present market situation has become fragile, so in order to adopt and hence to sustain an organisation, it needs to evaluate itself, so as to identify its current strategic agile position. In today's trend agility exerted by manufacturing, organisation plays an important role. The present work has been conducted to assess the agility of the manufacturing organisation using a scoring approach. This paper presents a 30-criteria agility assessment model which could be utilised to measure agility and to identify the agile characteristics of organisation. Thus, weak factors were identified, and proposals are suggested so as to enhance the agility of the organisation.

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  1. Department of Production Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, 620 015, Tamil Nadu, India

    S. Vinodh, V. Uday Kumar & R. Jeya Girubha

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Vinodh, S., Kumar, V.U. & Girubha, R.J. Thirty-criteria-based agility assessment: a case study in an Indian pump manufacturing organisation. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 63, 915–929 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-012-3988-4

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