Flexibility: A Multi Node Manufacturing Context

Abstract

Owing to global competitive market, rapidly changing demand and high product verities, industries are looking for the adaptability
in their systems which can cope up with all the uncertainties of the environment. The flexibility provides the option to make the
system so adaptable which can change the system according to the changed internal and external factors. The aim of this paper is
to give the literature review in flexibility to understand the notion of flexibility and its applications in multi node manufacturing.
The Industrial and academic view has been provided to make this paper more advantageous for both practitioners and researchers.
The paper discusses the generic notion of the flexibility and its definitions. Various flexibility frameworks help us to understand the
different dimensions of flexibility in manufacturing. The authors provide a manufacturing flexibility assessment framework which
will enrich the research domain of flexibility. The detailed discussion has been provided the future roadmap for the further research
in manufacturing flexibility. The futuristic view has been classified according to the practitioners and researchers. Therefore, this
paper provides the great understanding for the concept of flexibility in multi node manufacturing domain with futuristic view.