TY  - JOUR
AB  - Many of the new pressures from today's manufacturing environment are turning manufacturing managers' attention to the virtues of developing a flexible manufacturing function. Flexibility, however, has different meanings for different managers and several perfectly legitimate alternative paths exist towards flexible manufacturing. How managers in ten companies view manufacturing flexibility in terms of how they see the contribution of manufacturing flexibility to overall company performance; what types of flexibility they regard as important; and what their desired degree of flexibility is. The results of the investigations in these ten companies are summarised in the form of ten empirical “observations”. Based on these “observations” a check‐list of prescriptions is presented and a hierarchical framework developed into which the various issues raised by the “observations” can be incorporated.
VL  - 7
IS  - 4
SN  - 0144-3577
DO  - 10.1108/eb054798
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb054798
AU  - Slack Nigel
PY  - 1987
Y1  - 1987/01/01
TI  - The Flexibility of Manufacturing Systems
T2  - International Journal of Operations & Production Management
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 35
EP  - 45
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -