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To maintain competitiveness in the emerging global economy, U.S. manufacturing must rise to new standards of product quality, responsiveness to customers, and process flexibility. This volume presents a concise and well-organized analysis of new research directions to achieve these goals. Five critical areas receive in-depth analysis of present practices, needed improvement, and research priorities: advanced engineered materials that offer the prospect of better life-cycle performance and other gains; equipment reliability and maintenance practices for better returns on capital investment; rapid product realization techniques to speed delivery to the marketplace; intelligent manufacturing control for improved reliability and greater precision; and building a workforce with the multidisciplinary skills needed for competitiveness. This sound and accessible analysis will be useful to manufacturing engineers and researchers, business executives, and economic and policy analysts.

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Book category Books in English Economics, finance, business & management Business & management Management & management techniques

• Full title: Competitive Edge
• Subtitle: Research Priorities for U.S. Manufacturing
• Author: Committee on Analysis of Research Directions and Needs in U.S. Manufacturing, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, Board on Manufacturing
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184
• EAN: 9780309047845
• ISBN: 0309047846
• ID: 04576170
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Weight: 301 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. January 1991

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