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Summary
Summary
Examines the managerial, organizational, and technological issues that manufacturing managers must understand to implement new technologies. Provides a sound strategy to help managers automate factories and manufacturing processes, improve design and manufacturing techniques, and increase market performance.
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Manufacturing in the US is undergoing dramatic changes in response to challenges from overseas, particularly Japan. Technological innovations have been well publicized, but their impacts on administrative decision making have received only recent attention. Ettlie (University of Michigan) is the first to offer a book on the subject. The integration of manufacturing innovations with management developments needed for implementation is known as synchronous innovation, a relatively new concept. The author provides examples and cases documenting the results of utilizing that concept as well as of employing newer manufacturing technologies (e.g., computer-aided design, robotics, automated assembly, computer-integrated manufacturing). The book also contains tables, figures, exhibits, and an extensive list of references. The author is careful to explain all the technical terms used, which makes the book accessible to a broader audience than its primary target, manufacturing managers. It could be read with benefit by those engaged in any field of business or by anyone seriously interested in the impact of manufacturing on the overall economy. W. C. Struning Seton Hall University
Table of Contents
| Preface |
| The Author |
| 1 Winning the Race to Modernize: The Synchronous Innovation Approach |
| 2 How the New Manufacturing Technologies Have Performed |
| 3 Integrating the Organizational Hierarchy to Prepare for New Technologies |
| 4 Strengthening the Links Between Design and Manufacturing |
| 5 Using Suppliers and Customers to Enhance the Modernization Effort |
| 6 Choosing an Appropriate Modernization Strategy for the Firm |
| 7 Changes in People and Jobs During Modernization |
| 8 Guidelines for Adopting Technological and Organizational Innovations Simultaneously |
| References |
| Index |
