Management of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
Strategy, Organization and Innovation
Published on 21. January 1992
Book
Hardback
412 pages
978-0-471-63574-1 (ISBN)
Description
This study deals with the complex issues and problems involved in the planning, organization and implementation of plant-wide control reprogramming automated manufacturing systems, regarded as CIM (computer-integrated manufacturing). Coverage includes the process of introducing programmable automation into manufacturing organizations; programming vast numbers of independent machines to function in harmony; problems of integrating manufacturing centres using both quantitative and qualitative approaches and more. The text contains actual case studies of successes and failures along with detailed analyses of each one.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 162 mm
Weight
765 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-63574-1 (9780471635741)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Advanced manufacturing technologies; strategy - strategic implications of flexibility; design and justification of AMT; performance measurement; evolutionary processes; organization - organizational structure and the management of uncertainty; sociotechnical systems and product-focused forms; AMT at level of the individual; innovation - the innovation process - adoption; the preparation process; the implementation process; implications of the innovation theory; lessons from the past decade.