Application of goal programming to manage agility in manufacturing systems
by P.G. Saleeshya, A. Subash Babu
International Journal of Agile Systems and Management (IJASM), Vol. 4, No. 3, 2011

Abstract: This paper is related to a real life study carried out in Indian manufacturing organisations to assess the extent to which the agile manufacturing paradigm is recognised and deployed, as this paradigm has been a major objective of many companies. A multi-level framework developed by the authors along with a questionnaire was used to identify various enabling factors of agility in Indian manufacturing industries. The data collected from the industries was analysed by the model called objectivated agility realisation model (OARM) developed by the authors. This model helps to determine the measure of agility called 'effectiveness index' (EI) at various hierarchical levels of an organisation. The authors also proposed an approach to measure the agility of manufacturing systems by combining the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and the data envelopment analysis (DEA) methodologies. The approaches of AHP, OARM and DEA are essentially in the category of diagnostic methods. Therefore, a need was felt to resort to an appropriate method, which may provide proper guidelines for deploying the enablers and also use a suitable method of optimisation. Goal programming method has been identified suitable to deal with this problem and the salient details of which is presented in this paper.

Online publication date: Wed, 01-Jun-2011

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