What is going on? Agile manufacturing was introduced in 1991 by a government-sponsored research effort at Lehigh University. After researching and studying about aspect of the "agile manufacturing", for my purposes, different businesses have different ideas of what agile manufacturing is. I adopt the following definition: depending on market and customers demand, agile manufacturing take competition ability and prestige as the foundation, choosing the cooperator to constitute the virtual company, division of cooperation, strengthending the whole …showed first 75 words of 915 total…

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