Agile Manufacturing: Literature Review

This paper reviews the literature on agile manufacturing and classifies it into ten themes namely concept of agility, concept of agile manufacturing (AM), drivers of AM, enablers of AM, measurement of agility, benefits of AM, applications of AM, combinative studies, caution of AM and criticism of AM. The paper concludes that implementation of agile manufacturing has resulted in the enhancement of marketing, operational and financial performance of the firms. However, there is an increasing trend In combining agile with lean manufacturing to secure even better performance by securing efficiencies resulting from lean and flexibility resulting from agile production.