Agile Manufacturing is an approach to manufacturing that leverages flexibility, bottom-up innovation and augmentation in order to adapt, through an iterative process, to changing conditions. The Agile movement was born in 2001, when seventeen software developers gathered in a ski lodge in Utah. They all had at least one thing in common: a deep dissatisfaction with the Waterfall model. The Waterfall model is a development method that is linear and sequential. Practitioners must complete each step of production before they start the next. Though structured and easy to follow, the Waterfall model has many pitfalls. Primarily, the Waterfall model discourages changing course until the end of the development cycle.

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