Agility has become very important for the industries today as the product life continues to shrink. This book provides an excellent opportunity to update your understanding of agile methods from the design, manufacturing and business process perspectives, whether one is an industrial practitioner, academic researcher, engineer or business graduate student. Providing a compilation of various important aspects of agility, this book consists of systemic considerations in manufacturing, agile software systems, agile business systems, agile operations research and the many other types of manufacturing systems