A multi-agent based approach for change management in manufacturing enterprises

Ayhan, Mustafa Batuhan; Aydin, Mehmet Emin; �ztemel, Ercan

Abstract

© 2013, Springer Science+Business Media New York. Change management becomes an unavoidable necessity for manufacturing enterprises. Since change in business processes carries significant impact on the performance of manufacturing companies, a change management model is definitely required to remain competitive. Moreover, utilizing agent based systems will provide computational provision and integrity to manage and measure the capabilities to follow the change in a progressive approach by employing the cooperation and collaboration properties of various agents helping for retrieval of the required information in a rapid way. Therefore, in this paper, a multi-agent based change management model is proposed to handle the changes in manufacturing enterprises. The model is validated through a case study done to measure the performance of change management capabilities in a manufacturing company. A sensitivity analysis on the results of this case study is also conducted to reveal the system reactivity to various parameters.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: May 28, 2013
• Online Publication Date: Jun 11, 2013
• Publication Date: Oct 22, 2015
• Deposit Date: Oct 14, 2015
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 30, 2016
• Journal: Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
• Print ISSN: 0956-5515
• Electronic ISSN: 1572-8145
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 975-988
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10845-013-0794-2
• Keywords: change management, agent based systems, manufacturing sensitivity analysis
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/804960
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10845-013-0794-2
• Additional Information: Additional Information : The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10845-013-0794-2
• Contract Date: Apr 27, 2016