Agility evaluation in the rolling industry: A case study

Abstract

In the contemporary marketplace, the rate of competition is high both at local and global levels. Rolling industries are used for manufacturing materials which are used further for developing various finished products. The products developed are in accordance with a volatile market keeping in mind the cost and productivity. Thus, the manufacturing system, i.e., integrated lean-agile manufacturing system (LAMS) can be adopted. However, the implementation of the integrated form of manufacturing can be difficult to accomplish. Some attributes and sub-attributes are there which besides having an impact on the implementation process. This paper’s main objective is the identification and analysis of the attributes. These attributes have been determined with the help of literature review, and then the rating is implemented using the questionnaire survey and fuzzy agility evaluation (FAE) approach has been utilized for the analysis of the agility level of the rolling industry.