To achieve agile manufacturing in any manufacturing industry, needed to measure agility in that industry. The purpose of article is to identify and explain the main factors for measuring agility in the automotive industry as the most important non-oil industry. This res
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To achieve agile manufacturing in any manufacturing industry, needed to measure agility in that industry. The purpose of article is to identify and explain the main factors for measuring agility in the automotive industry as the most important non-oil industry. This research is an applied research in terms of purpose and a mixed qualitative-quantitative research in terms of method. The statistical population of the research in qualitative section is the academics and the automotive industry managers, and in the quantitative section is the experts of the mentioned industry. The method of collecting information has been through a questionnaire. In the qualitative section, First, by researching related articles by meta-synthesis method, 89 sources were selected and 27 criteria for measuring agility were identified. Then the criteria were generalized to the automotive industry by surveying 16 experts using fuzzy Delphi method. Then these criteria were categorized into 4 general clusters of agility drivers, agility enablers, agility strategies and agility capabilities using cognitive mapping method and with the help of 5 industry and university experts. In the quantitative part, by distributing questionnaires and surveys of 286 experts in the automotive industry, the extracted factors were validated by confirmatory factor analysis. These factors and criteria can be a good tool for managers of manufacturing industries to assess and gap analysis of the agility of their organizations. Agility enablers, agility strategies and agility capabilities measure the current level of agility of the organization and agility drivers measure the level of agility required by the organization.
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