Fuzzy Evaluation to Reach the Required Agility at Manufacturing Organizations

Change is one of the major organization features in competitive area. Organizations deal with changes in different angels such as change in customer demand, technological innovations and unstable environment. In order to adapt with turbulent and volatile market they make an attempt for change priorities, strategic vision and their traditional models .therefore, in the last few decades the manufacturing has become changed to new paradigm called agility. The agility as a 21century paradigm is an organization ability to exploit opportunities based on the occurred change. There is well document research in association with this winner strategy, agility evaluation and make organizations agile. However, there is no evidence that weather an organization gets to an agile state is a vital and inevitable activity in global economic system or not? In this paper details of the approach and a framework of fuzzy agility evaluation will be asserted. An example is also used to illustrate the approach developed.

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