A Literature Review on the Progression of Agile Manufacturing Paradigm and Its Scope of Application in Pump Industry

Table 1

Agility enablers reported in literature arena.

Paper number	Papers reporting agility enablers	Number of agility enablers identified	Agility enablers
1	Vinodh et al. [23]	2	Computer-Aided Design (CAD), Rapid Prototyping Technology (RPT).
2	Yusuf et al. [24]	4	Core competence management, Virtual Enterprise (VE) formation, capability for reconfiguration, and knowledge driven enterprise.
3	Narasimhan et al. [25]	4	Partnership arrangement, close relationships with suppliers, JIT production, and advanced technologies.
4	Vinodh et al. [26]	5	Organizational structure enabler, manufacturing management enabler, employee agility enabler, technology enabler, and manufacturing strategy enabler.
5	Gunasekaran [27]; Bottani [28]; Gunasekaran and Yusuf [10]	7	VE formation tools/metrics, physically distributed teams, and manufacturing, rapid partnership formation tools/metrics, Concurrent Engineering (CE), integrated product/production, business information system, rapid prototyping tools, electronic commerce (EC).
6	Vinodh and Kuttalingam [9]	9	CAD, Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM), Computer Numerical Control (CNC), computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM), Rapid Prototyping (RP), Rapid Tooling (RT), Reverse Engineering (RE), VE, Information Technology (IT).
7	Dowlatshahi and Cao [29]	10	Core competencies, VE, RPT, CE, multiskilled and flexible people, continuous improvement, team working, change and risk management, IT, empowering.
8	Sreenivasa and Devadasan [30]	25	Artificial Intelligence (AI), internet, inter- and intraenterprise activities, Standard for Exchange of Products (STEP), CE, virtual manufacturing, component based distributed shop floor control system, tabu-enhanced genetic algorithm approach, customization, RPT, IT, AI, web technology, innovative total quality function deployment (ITQFD), management responsibility, manufacturing management, employee status, technology and manufacturing strategy, RPT, Computer-Aided Design of Experiments (CADOE), activity based costing (ABC), CAD/CAM, CAD, and RPT.
9	Eshlaghy et al. [31]	25	VE, EC, RPT, improvement, multiskilled and flexible people, team working, CE, change and risk management, integrated information system, continuous improvement, flexible infrastructure, supply chain, improved manufacturing technology, core competence, capability for reconfiguration, knowledge management, innovation, agile strategy, agility process, reward system, culture, reengineering, leadership, collaborative relationships, uncertainty and essential changes, people leverage, and IT.
10	Vázquez-Bustelo et al. [32]	53	Top management support, employee involvement and empowerment, team working, job rotation (multifunctional workforce), training and education, knowledge workers, decentralized decision making, entrepreneurial firm culture, reward schemes to encourage innovation and based on both financial and nonfinancial measures, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Materials Requirement Planning (MRP), Robotics, automated guided vehicle (AGV), automated storage and retrieval systems, CNC machines, CAD/CAM, RPT tools, intranet internet and world wide web, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), EC, visual inspection, manufacturing cells, virtual reality software, Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS), computer-aided process planning (CAPP), group technology (GT), Point of Sales (POS) data collection, bar codes, automatic data collection, real time communication/execution systems, Design for Manufacture/Assembly (DFM/A), strategic alliance/based on core/complementary competencies, virtual firm/organization, rapid partnership formation, integration of functions from purchasing to sales, global supply chain management, customer integrated processes for designing, manufacturing, marketing, and support, strategic relationship with customers and suppliers, internal and external cooperation, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), formation of cross function product development teams, concurrent design of products and processes, multidisciplinary team working environment, intelligent engineering design support system, customer and supplier integrated multidiscipline teams, global access to databases and information, Knowledge Based Systems (KBS), knowledge management systems, sensitive information protection, organization structure that promotes innovation, training and education, learning organization, knowledge acquisition from internal and external resources, and core competence management.