Title: Leagile manufacturing in air compressor manufacturing industry: a literature perspective

Authors: T. Sakthivel; S.R. Devadasan; D. Ramesh Kumar

Addresses: Department of Mechanical Engineering, PSG Polytechnic College, Coimbatore, 641004, India ' Department Production Engineering, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, 641004, India ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, Adithya Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, 641107, India

Abstract: This paper reports a literature survey which was carried out from the perspective of implementing leagile manufacturing paradigm in air compressor manufacturing industry. Leagile manufacturing paradigm is incorporated with lean and agile manufacturing principles. This literature survey was conducted in three phases. In the first phase, the researches on leagile manufacturing were surveyed. During the second phase of the literature survey, the research papers reporting the literature reviews containing the air compressor based researches were reviewed. During the third phase of conducting this literature survey, it was found that so far no efforts for examining the implementation of leagile manufacturing paradigm in air compressor industry have been made by the researchers The paper is concluded by indicating the need of designing an implementation model and conducting case studies to practically validate this model for implementing leagile manufacturing paradigm air compressor manufacturing industry to acquire competitive strength.

Keywords: lean manufacturing; agile manufacturing; leagile manufacturing; postponement; decoupling point; air compressor; literature survey.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSOM.2025.148830

International Journal of Services and Operations Management, 2025 Vol.52 No.1, pp.41 - 60

Received: 31 Mar 2023
Accepted: 26 Jul 2023
Published online: 29 Sep 2025 *

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