The process of manufacturing strategy development is here
regarded as the procedures which are used to develop those man-ufacturing strategies in order to enhance the manufacturing function’s capabilities. So far, different methodologies concerning the
development of manufacturing strategy have been developed.
Among them four perspectives emerge, which includes top-down
perspective, bottom-up perspective, market requirements perspec-
tive, and manufacturing resources perspectives. Here we describe
some representative methodologies to give an overview of how
manufacturing strategies are formulated in practice.