The Agile manufacturing concept is gaining considerable interest, even though it is hidden in a mass of confusing explanations and interpretations.
Agility is a very seductive word.
One that finds immediate and personal definition for almost everyone. As a descriptive word, Agility can embrace almost any of our current competitiveness interests with considerable intuitive appeal. Agility is presented by some as an amplification of one of these concepts, and by some others as a superset of many. Casual investigation of Agility can easily lead to greater fuzziness as a greater number of sources are heard from. Confusion is evidenced in many ways.