Making things better : competing in manufacturing.
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
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Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1428921958
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Trouble in the Making?
Author: Mary Hallward-Driemeier
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2017-10-12
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1464811938
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTechnology and globalization are threatening manufacturing’s traditional ability to deliver both productivity and jobs at a large scale for unskilled workers. Concerns about widening inequality within and across countries are raising questions about whether interventions are needed and how effective they could be. Trouble in the Making? The Future of Manufacturing-Led Development addresses three questions: - How has the global manufacturing landscape changed and why does this matter for development opportunities? - How are emerging trends in technology and globalization likely to shape the feasibility and desirability of manufacturing-led development in the future? - If low wages are going to be less important in defining competitiveness, how can less industrialized countries make the most of new opportunities that shifting technologies and globalization patterns may bring? The book examines the impacts of new technologies (i.e., the Internet of Things, 3-D printing, and advanced robotics), rising international competition, and increased servicification on manufacturing productivity and employment. The aim is to inform policy choices for countries currently producing and for those seeking to enter new manufacturing markets. Increased polarization is a risk, but the book analyzes ways to go beyond focusing on potential disruptions to position workers, firms, and locations for new opportunities. www.worldbank.org/futureofmanufacturing
Making Things Better
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1993-05
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781568063768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConsiders ways to promote the restoration of American leadership in manufacturing technology, which is now considered a national security issue. Includes strategies to improve U.S. manufacturing technology, financing long-term investments, human resources, links between firms and industries, technology transfer and diffusion, and public policy and technology. Graphs.
Computer Integrated Production Systems and Organizations
Author: Felix Schmid
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 3642578950
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Background to the Institute The NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) 'People and Computers - Applying an Anthropocentric Approach to Integrated Production Systems and Organisations' came about after the distribution of a NATO fact sheet to BruneI University, which described the funding of ASls. The 'embryonic' director of the ASI brought this opportunity to the attention of the group of people, (some at BruneI and some from outside), who were together responsible for the teaching and management of the course in Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) in BruneI's Department of Manufacturing and Engineering Systems. This course had been conceived in 1986 and was envisaged as a vehicle for teaching manufacturing engineering students the technology of information integration through project work. While the original idea of the course had also included the organisational aspects of CIM, the human factors questions were not considered. This shortcoming was recognised and the trial run of the course in 1988 contained some lectures on 'people' issues. The course team were therefore well prepared and keen to explore the People, Organisation and Technology (POT) aspects of computer integration, as applied to industrial production. A context was proposed which would allow the inclusion of people from many different backgrounds and which would open up time and space for reflection. The proposal to organise a NATO ASI was therefore welcomed by all concerned.
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 1586
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnit Manufacturing Processes
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1995-01-03
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0309176670
DOWNLOAD EBOOKManufacturing, reduced to its simplest form, involves the sequencing of product forms through a number of different processes. Each individual step, known as an unit manufacturing process, can be viewed as the fundamental building block of a nation's manufacturing capability. A committee of the National Research Council has prepared a report to help define national priorities for research in unit processes. It contains an organizing framework for unit process families, criteria for determining the criticality of a process or manufacturing technology, examples of research opportunities, and a prioritized list of enabling technologies that can lead to the manufacture of products of superior quality at competitive costs. The study was performed under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation and the Defense Department's Manufacturing Technology Program.
Mexican Agricultural Policies
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Employment, Housing, and Aviation Subcommittee
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEstablishment of a Design Council in the Department of Commerce
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Technology, Environment, and Aviation
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPromoting Industrial Competitiveness in Developing Countries
Author: Sanjaya Lall
Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780850926231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book describes the micro-foundations of competitiveness and enterprise, and translates the lessons to national level. It looks at the competitive performance in East Asia and highlights lessons to be learned by other developing countries.
Competitiveness Strategy in Developing Countries
Author: Ganeshan Wignaraja
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-10-04
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1134585454
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlobalization and structural adjustment offer many opportunities for export orientated industrialization in developing economies. As a group, competitiveness in the developing countries has improved, but, while East Asian economies have had rapid export growth and technological upgrades, South Asian and African economies have lagged behind. Old structures, institutions, behavioural patterns and public policies are ill-adapted to deal with the challenges posed by technological change and economic liberalization. Consequently there is an urgent need for change in government and private sector attitudes and strategies. This volume seeks to generalise the lessons across developing country and enterprise cases, and sheds light on which trade and industrial strategies and instruments work best, and which do not work, in relation to manufacturing competitiveness.
