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Manufacturing industries have to work under continuously changing circumstances determined by the market and industries. To improve their future competitiveness, they need to develop strategies of flexibility. Decisions of flexibility are made in companies at the highest managerial level, but managers still use questionable recipes based on empirical research to efficiently incorporate flexibility into their strategic decisions. A number of questions have yet to be answered about required manufacturing flexibility and causality between the significant parameters of the system which influence the final cost, delay and performances. The aim of this paper is to give some guidelines to the managers who wants to introduce flexibility.
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Pailles, N., Yannou, B., Bocquet, J.C. (1997). Manufacturing Flexibility: A New Evaluation. In: Chedmail, P., Bocquet, JC., Dornfeld, D. (eds) Integrated Design and Manufacturing in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5588-5_8
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