Acta Mechanica Slovaca 2011, 15(4):26-34 | DOI: 10.21496/ams.2011.037

Product Innovations and Agile Manufacturing

Milan Kováč, Štefan Babjak*, Michal Dúbravčík, Andrea Lešková
Department of Technologies and Materials, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Mäsiarska 74, 042 01 Košice, Slovak Republic

The automotive sector is facing advanced challenges arising from global changes in the technical, economic and social environment. Trend, referred to as the "agile manufacturing" represents the ability to survive and prosper in a competitive environment of continuous and unpredictable changes. It means to respond quickly and effectively to changing markets, produce goods and services according to customer needs via maintain the continuous product innovation, manageable number of product variants, fulfilling the unpredictable requirements of customers, shortening product life cycle and respond to significant fluctuations in sales. Submitted article describes the philosophy of solving the task "Product design for high-tech production systems and risk management of innovative projects" within the frame of the project "Center for research of control of technical, environmental and human risks for permanent development of production and products in mechanical engineering" and provides selected results from analytical and experimental research and building of the laboratory.

Keywords: Product Design, Agile Manufacturing, Knowledge-intensive Services, Innovation Techniques Integration, Innovation Management

Received: March 28, 2011; Accepted: May 24, 2011; Published: October 31, 2011  Show citation

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Kováč, M., Babjak, Š., Dúbravčík, M., & Lešková, A. (2011). Product Innovations and Agile Manufacturing. Acta Mechanica Slovaca, 15(4), 26-34. doi: 10.21496/ams.2011.037
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