Investigation on assessing the awareness of agile manufacturing and its impact of achieving agility in small scale pump manufacturing unit

Abstract

Nowadays every manufacturing firm in the global market is striving newlineto attain their best quality level in terms of process and product Quality plays the key role where all the manufacturing firms focus on attaining their standards newlineof precision and zero error modules Agile manufacturing AM is one of the newlinenew manufacturing methods and many organizations are moving towards on newlineimplementing these processes Agile manufacturing is the ability to respond newlinequickly to the demands and the voice of the customer It is one of the essential newlinecompetitive factors of an organization and the success of obtaining agility in a newlinemanufacturing environment lies on creating agile friendly products newlineMost of the developing countries are still tackling the perennial newlineproblems of unemployment SMEs play a major role in creating employment newlineopportunities The majority of employees in India as well as other developing newlinenations are still depending on the SMEs because they are the backbone of the newlineindustrial development of our nation The contributions of SMEs create more newlineemployment opportunities compared to the large scale enterprises and newlineconsequently they are reducing the employment pressure newlineIn this research study an empirical investigation on the level of agile newlinemanufacturing awareness concepts and implementation of certain methodologies newlinein different small and medium sized enterprises SMEs in India were carried newlineout. Moreover the result showed that most of the Indian SMEs are eligible to newlineadopt the agile manufacturing environment The main objective of this research newlinework is to implement the agile manufacturing environment and to design a user newlinefriendly cost effective tool in SMEs newline newline