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Manufacturing in Real-Time: a Guide for Managers and Engineers in an Age of Smart Machines. (Books).


By Gian Frontini and Scott Kennedy. Price, $49.99. Elsevier Elsevier, the world's largest publisher of medical and scientific literature, forms part of the Reed Elsevier group. Based in Amsterdam, the company has substantial operations in the UK, USA and elsewhere.  Science, New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
, NY (2003).

The authors present a brief history of manufacturing and the changes already seen, then describe the current manufacturing environment. Topics covered include supply chain management, product streams, the role of automation in the supply chain, the relationships between machines and people in automated au·to·mate  
v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates

v.tr.
1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory.

2.
 product streams, statistical process control, flow of information in a supply chain and how all of these elements are affected by new technologies.
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