Mixed production, flexibility and SME

✍ Scribed by Georges Abdul-Nour; Jocelyn Drolet; Serge Lambert

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 268 KB
• Volume: 37
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0360-8352
• DOI: 10.1016/s0360-8352(99)00110-2

✦ Synopsis

In this study, a step by step management approach is developed in order to help SME (Small Manufacturing Enterprise) to reach basic, system, and aggregate flexibility and agility, despite their lack of resources. This research is justified by the fact that some large factories are lowering their fixed cost by moving processing machine towards specialized SME, and creating intelligent network of factories based on innovation, agility and JIT philosophy.