Transitioning into New Manufacturing Paradigm: To Succeed in the Customer Centric Business Environment--Agility, Speed and Responsiveness. "The Lean Manufacturing Enterprise"

The customers prefer small lot sizes, multimodels with model variations, short delivery lead times, and low cost. The organization that cannot transition to the new manufacturing paradigm of buyer-centric strategy, their rigidity of the current mass production (seller-centric), will eliminate them from the industry. There are many organizations that implemented robotics and automation to reduced labor, but, they have also increased their changeover time and made the internal processes more ...