Track: Production Planning and Management

Abstract

From the beginning of the twenty-first century, manufacturing organizations have some challenges of new problems, in particular rapid changes in productions and customers' needs. These changes in almost production organizations may be increasingly known as treatment factors, so, they have developed new approaches to agile manufacturing in order to response the above challenges. One of the most effective ways for overcoming rapid changes is to apply team working procedures in which companies are facing with many problems and try to solve them with together. Therefore, the formation of effective teams is an undeniable necessity while team works are closely related to production planning. In the present paper, the concept of team works are discussed and show the relationship between them and their capabilities which cause to improve production agility in production companies. A conceptual model in which agility tools have been considered in the middle of the other concepts (team works and agility skills) has been developed. The conceptual model which defines the relationship between team work and agile production has been developed and analyzed using questionnaire. The proposed model has been validated using T-test method and Likert linguistic domain of experts’ opinions by analyzing the filled out questionnaires. Results revealed that there is a significant relation between team working and production agility in production organizations.