Agile Manufacturing Systems: Approach for Enhancing Agility of Organisations and Processes

Agility has become very important for the industries today as the product life continues to shrink. This book provides an excellent opportunity to update your understanding of agile methods from the design, manufacturing and business process perspectives, whether one is an industrial practitioner, academic researcher, engineer or business graduate student. Providing a compilation of various important aspects of agility, this book consists of systemic considerations in manufacturing, agile software systems, agile business systems, agile operations research and the many other types of manufacturing systems

Table of Contents

• Systemic Considerations in Manufacturing
• Agile Software Systems I
• Agile Defence Systems
• Agile Operations Research I
• Business Systems
• Agile Operations Research II
• General Systems I
• General Systems II
• Agile Software Systems II
• Clean and Green Manufacturing Systems and Environment
• Flexible Manufacturing Systems
• Materials and Mechanical Behaviour I
• Materials and Mechanical Behaviour II
• Advanced Manufacturing Systems
• Modeling and Simulation
• Agility in Design.

K. Hans Raj.: Professor, Mechanical Engineering Dept. Faculty of Engineering, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Dayalbagh, Agra S. N. Dwivedi.: Professor, Director of Virtual Reality and Product Realization, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Room no. 223 Rougeou Hall, 241 E. Lewis St, Lafayette, LA-70504 D. S. Mishra.: Head, Mechanical Engineering Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Dayalbagh, Agra Alok K. Verma.: Ray Ferrari Professor, Director Lean Institute, Engineering Technology Department, KH-214 Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529 C. Patvardhan.: Professor, Electrical Engineering Department Faculty of Engineering, Dayalbagh Educational Indtitute Dayalbagh, Agra R. S. Sharma.: Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Faculty of Engineering, Dayalbagh Educational Institute Dayalbagh, Agra