History is replete with examples of one political system replacing another, one scientific discovery invalidating another and this cycle has occurred repeatedly in the production of goods and products for society. This book, first published in 1998, examines the massive transition currently taking place: the decline of the system of mass manufacturing. Various global changes in American business and manufacturing have forced a review of accepted thinking, and this book is a key text in this evaluation.
1. Introduction
2. Stages of Manufacturing
3. Manufacturing in the 21st
Century
4. Methodology
5. Development of a Theory of Agility
6. Case 1:
Arrowplane and Composit Materials, Inc.
7. Case 2: Thompson Enterprises and
Bilmo Incorporated
8. Agility and the Global Aerospace Industry
9. Creating a
Measure of Agility
10. Analysis and Model Revisions
Jeffrey Amos
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