The Need for Flexibility

In a world economy where globalization reaches almost every corner, the need for a company to attain flexibility has acquired tremendous importance to remain competitive and profitable. This study is about explaining what constitutes flexibility in manufacturing systems along with its different ramifications, it is about showing the importance of flexible systems and its benefits in the manufacturing industry focusing primary in the Auto Industry. This study would present the importance of flexibility in times of uncertain conditions (natural and socio-economic), it would present an analysis of the struggle of Toyota Motors Manufacturing Texas and one of its on-site suppliers Futaba Industrial Texas FIT to attain Manufacturing Flexibility through different economic crisis and a natural disaster presenting its strategies to mitigate economic losses and cope with the turbulent environment by developing robust systems.

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Alonso Hernandez was born in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas in Mexico, after high school, he studied for a year as a Rotary Exchange student in Tokyo, Japan. In May 2007 got his B.S. in Manufacturing Engineering University of Texas Pan-American. 2011 Received M.S.in Engineering Management from the University of Texas at Austin.