Introduction -- Chapter 1. History and Future of Manufacturing -- Chapter 2. Developments of Technological Systems -- Chapter 3. Digital Manufacturing -- Chapter 4. Business Models for Additive Manufacturing: A Consulting Services Perspective -- Chapter 5. Servitization in the digital era --...

Section 1: Theory 1. Digitalisation, Digital Services and Companies' Internationalisation: A Literature Review Arto Ojala, Natasha Evers and Carlos M.P. Sousa 2. The Role of the Two-Order Model for Digital Disruption in Strategy Formulation Brian Stewart, Anshuman Khare and Rod Schatz 3. Leading...

Intro -- Contents -- Material on Enclosed CD-ROM -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- PART I Setting the Stage -- 2 Describing Processes -- 3 Seven Approaches to Variation Reduction -- 4 An Algorithm for Reducing Variation -- 5 Obtaining Process Knowledge...

The manufacturing processes have been in evidence for the past hundred yearsand are being widely used in diverse areas. Among various manufacturingprocesses, casting, welding, forging, non- traditional manufacturingprocesses etc are commercially used as manufacturing solutions. This specialissue...