A vision for reconfiguring industrial organizations due to the global recession

Due to the existing depression, industrial organizations in most of the world require to be reconfigured and/or reorganized especially the manufacturing firms (companies). As a consequence of this depression, great political and economical maybe changed and some companies will go out from business and others will be merged with other firms. Also, a big effecting will be represented in unemployment. The industrial organizations will start to deal intensively for better utilization of resources (e.g., equipments, machines, etc.) and human resources. There are a lot of issues needed to be addressed to cope with this depression. The new manufacturing and management philosophies will be used in depth in the next period such as lean and agile principles, manufacturing strategic planning, and a new organization structure, etc. In this paper, a framework for discussing visions of reconfiguring industrial organizations will be explained and discussed. The analysis shows that reconfiguring those companies is a multi-dimensional problem.