DESSAC: A decision support system for agility assessment

S. Vinodh, G. Sundararaj, S. R. Devadasan

Abstract

This paper traces the origin and development of Agile Manufacturing (AM). The industrial sectors, which have imbibed agility, are today’s winners in the competitive markets. In order to implement twenty criteria AM effectively, the agility level at which currently a company operates needs to be quantified. Hence, a scoring pattern analogous to the one used in Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is integrated with the twenty criteria AM model. Applying this quantifying model in real time practice will be a time consuming and tedious process. In order to overcome this difficulty, a Decision Support System named as DESSAC (stands for DEcision Support System for quantifying Agile Criteria) has been developed during the research being reported in this paper.

Keywords

Agile Manufacturing: Lean Manufacturing: Decision Support System: Flexible Manufacturing Systems: Implementation Study

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