Book Reviews : The Transition to Agile Manufacturing—Staying Flexible for Competitive Advantage, Edited by Joseph C. Montgomery and Lawrence O. Levine; Published by ASQC Quality Press, Milwaukee, Wisconsin ©1996 ISBN 0-87389-347-6

The key themes of this book are agility, alignment, and change management. By relying on a number of different authors for the chapters, the book has tried to capture the variety of knowledge and skills necessary to make a successful transition to agile manufacturing. Here are some of the main perspectives editors have tried to capture: (1) organizational and business management, (2) industrial and mechanical engineering, and (3) production and inventory management. Most books on manufacturing focus on just one of these perspectives. This book has combined them to transform and manage a successful manufacturing firm along the path to agility. Given the intended audience for this book editors have tried to