Moving towards agility is becoming a main alternative for most existing efforts in managing a manufacturing company in order to gain or maintain competitive advantage and to become more flexible and quick to respond in order to satisfy customer and market requirements.

The concept of agility represents the ability of a manufacturer to succeed in the face of continuous, unanticipated change. These changes can occur in customer needs, product markets, technologies and business enterprise relationships. The Agile organisation, characterised by a rapid response to opportunities and threats, is a source of competitive strength for manufacturing enterprises. Agility is the small manufacturer’s chance to seize the market by responding faster to customer and market demands.

The aim of this paper to critique the available models, frameworks and methodologies for agility in order to defined the main component and factors of agility model that considered as essential for agility in manufacturing SMEs.

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Dr. Adel Hejaaji