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Started by : Mridula Maity, Product Development Manager, Rugel   09 10 2010 09:12:39 +0000
Industry : Industrial Products/Heavy MachineryFunctional Area : Product Development(Operations)
Activity:  54 views;  last activity : 11 10 2010 07:32:04 +0000

What Agile Manufacturing really represents is the potential for a quantum leap forward in manufacturing.

Instead of just chasing after the Japanese by copying their techniques in a prescriptive fashion, or implementing our own prescriptions such as CIM, in Agile Manufacturing we should be trying to achieve a competitive lead by
doing something that our competitors are not doing.

So, what are the key issues in agile manufacturing??

 
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1 The " I am a horse " attitude
2 The Existing Culture of Manufacturing
3 Current manucaturing with Agile line.
4 Identifying the Product Type

The " I am a horse " attitude

idea posted by Mridula Maity Product Development Manager, Rugel

There is an old saying that hanging a sign on a cow that says "I am a horse" does not make it a horse. There is a real danger that Agile Manufacturing will fall prey to the unfortunate tendency in manufacturing circles to follow fashion and to relabel everything with a new fashionable label. The dangers in this are two fold. First, it will give Agile Manufacturing a bad reputation.

Second, instead of getting to grips with the profound implications and issues raised by Agile Manufacturing, management will only acquire a superficial understanding, which leaves them vulnerable to those competitors that take Agile Manufacturing seriously. Of course this is good news for the competitors!

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by jai2150 , QA/QC Manager, autometers alliance ltd  | 09 20 2010 10:36:46 +0000

Dear all I read all coment what i belive if we don`t have sufficent amount of knowledge or information we should not mark any thing like mridula "managment take superficial woking patteren none of any efficent mamangment work like this " .

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I really don't have any idea about 'Agile Manufacturing'.

Please explain it.

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Dear mridula,

I liked your opinion but your statement that management will acquire only superficial understanding is not acceptable.

Without depth knowledge if any management approves such strategic change then those are incapable management. 

Such management will collapse any time.

 

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The Existing Culture of Manufacturing

idea posted by Rajesh Kamal Sales/BD Manager, Larsen & Toubro

Very true Mridula...I agree with you. One of the important things that is likely to hold us back from making a quantum leap forward and exploring this new frontier of Agile Manufacturing, is the baggage of our traditions, conventions and our accepted values and beliefs. A key success factor is, without any doubt, the ability to master both the soft and hard issues in change management.

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Current manucaturing with Agile line.

idea posted by Mani Kant Mishra SBU/Profit Center Head, FOR CLOSEED GROUP

I dont know why everybody is seeing 100 % future in agile manufacturing? What is our(India's) core strength. Its not segment specific product. India is driven by volume. We have to successful model like Hero Honda Bike & Maruti 800 & Alto Car. How many nation has such crown? 

Taste of India is changing. Middle & Upper middle class base is increasing per year. But what is the %age of middle & upper middle class? Poor are also coming to middle class.

 

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Current manucaturing with Agile lines for vulume driven sector like automobile. For other sectors Agile manufacturing should be implemented on priority.

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Identifying the Product Type

idea posted by AJITH ALEX JACOB Supply CHain Specialist, JDA Software
There is no point in introducing Agile techniques to a product that is being mass produced and continously supplied into the market. Such products require a rather lean approach. Products that are, however, of much lower volumes, high costs, with low shelf life if not no shelf life require agile manufacturing. Applying agile manufacturing to wrong product type will end up in losses for the company. I believe all of us know this. But its basics that count nevertheless.
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