Abstract
With the rapid changes taking place in the global market, it has
become clear that enterprises working on rapid manufacturing need to integrate
Agile Manufacturing (AM) concept with their systems. Rapid Prototyping
(RP), tooling and manufacture have come to stay as enablers of agility. Another
emerging manufacturing philosophy is Mass Customisation, which is expected
to become a market leader in manufacturing in the 21st century. To design
efficient production systems and factories operating in these manufacturing
paradigms, new design approaches need to be developed. This paper reviews
some of the important research work done on RP, Rapid Manufacturing (RM)
and AM, to show how RP/RM has been used successfully for implementing
agility in a number of research fields.
become clear that enterprises working on rapid manufacturing need to integrate
Agile Manufacturing (AM) concept with their systems. Rapid Prototyping
(RP), tooling and manufacture have come to stay as enablers of agility. Another
emerging manufacturing philosophy is Mass Customisation, which is expected
to become a market leader in manufacturing in the 21st century. To design
efficient production systems and factories operating in these manufacturing
paradigms, new design approaches need to be developed. This paper reviews
some of the important research work done on RP, Rapid Manufacturing (RM)
and AM, to show how RP/RM has been used successfully for implementing
agility in a number of research fields.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 135-146 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | International Journal of Agile Systems and Management |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2007 |
Keywords
- Agile Manufacturing
- Rapid
- MC
- Mass Customisation
- AM