*Research Scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, YMCAUST, Faridabad, Haryana, India
**Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, YMCAUST, Faridabad, Haryana, India
Online published on 13 February, 2014.
Agile manufacturing is a popularized concept, that has been advocated as the 21st century manufacturing paradigm. Agile manufacturing requires enriching of the customer, co-operating with competitors, organizing to manage change, uncertainty and complexity. The need for a method of rapidly and cost-effectively developing products, production facilities and supporting software, including design, process planning and shop poor control system has led to the concept of agile manufacturing[11]. It is seen as the winning strategy to be adopted by manufacturers bracing themselves for dramatic performance enhancements to become national and international leaders in an increasingly competitive market of fast changing customer requirements. In the recent years, a number of research papers have been published in the area of AM, but there is lack of discussion on main driver used in AMS.
In this paper we discuss the trend follow in manufacturing system with comparison of AMS with other manufacturing system, and find the drivers for agile manufacturing system.
