Manufacturing in a high cost environment: basis for future success on the national level / Göran Roos -- Competing from a high cost economy: what is the challenge to Australian public policy? / Ian Marsh -- Foundations for industrial rejuvenation: lessons from international and national...

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1. Developments in modern operations management and cellular manufacturing / Vladimír Modrák and Pavol Semanco -- 2. Decision support framework for the selection of a layout type / Jannes Slomp and Jos A.C. Bokhorst -- 3. Comparison of connected vs. disconnected cellular systems: a case study...

1. Intelligent manufacturing and manufacturing intelligence -- 2. Knowledge-based system -- 3. Intelligent agents and multi-agent systems -- 4. Data mining and knowledge discovery -- 5. Computational intelligence -- 6. Business process modeling and information systems modeling -- 7. Sensor...

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