Agile manufacturing, Lean production, Just in Time systems andproducts quality improvement

ABSTRACT: Agile manufacturing (AM) is a new concept in manufacturing intended to improve the competitiveness of firms. Manufacturing processes based on AM are characterized by customer-supplier integrated process for product design, manufacturing, marketing, and support services.Agile manufacturing, a recently popularised concept, has been advocated as the 21st century manufacturing paradigm.Lean production not only successfully challenged the accepted mass production practices in the automotive industry, significantly shifting the trade-off between productivity and quality, but it also led to a rethinking of a wide range of manufacturing and service operations beyond the high-volume repetitive manufacturing environment.The implementation of Lean Production Systems is more than redesigning some production processes.Quality improvement (QI) of industrial products and processes requires collection and analyses of data to solve quality related manufacturing problems