The mediating role of process flexibility in the relationship between smart manufacturing and new product design processes

Abstract

The research aim to find the relationship between smart manufacturing processes and product design processes through the mediating role of the flexibility of production processes and try to find the strength of this relationship between the three research variables, to enhance the response of economic organizations operating in a dynamic environment, which requires the use of quantitative techniques to make decisions in manufacturing processes Smart and the trend towards designing new products, in Al-Zawraa General Company, which is one of the leading companies producing electrical power control and distribution systems in Iraq. The questionnaire was adopted as the main tool used in the research. And the classification of the data and information obtained in the questionnaire and a sample of (88) respondents. The ready-made statistical software (SPSS24) was used to analyze the data and extract the results, in which the research reached several conclusions, most notably the mediation of the variable of the flexibility of production processes, the relationship between   the dimensions of smart manufacturing and the variable of new product design processes.