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
Science, New York, 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 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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