Agile Virtual Enterprise: The Operating Model of Leading Businesses in the 21st Century

Author: Huang He Zhang Xu Mei Liu Fei
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Publish Date: 2003-03-01
Features: Series on the Road of Enterprise Informatization. The trend of global competition in the 21st century forces enterprises to seek new manufacturing models to adapt to this brand-new challenge. The United States first proposed and practiced agile virtual manufacturing as an effective way to solve the aforementioned problems. Based on the authors' many years of research, this book introduces the background of the emergence of agile manufacturing, as well as its connotation, characteristic elements, and enabling subsystems. It focuses on a detailed discussion of the organizational form of agile manufacturing—the agile virtual enterprise, including its cooperative forms, life cycle, infrastructure, support systems, logistics systems, implementation of key technologies, and finally provides some typical cases from domestic and international perspectives.