Configuration Management for Senior Managers is written to help managers in product manufacturing and engineering environments identify the ways in which they can streamline their products and processes through proactive documentation control and product lifecycle management. Experienced...

Manufacturers can be green and highly profitable at the same time Profits do not have to be sacrificed to environmental responsibility, or vice versa. Following this book's tested and proven approach, readers discover how to create and operate manufacturing facilities that are highly profitable...

About the Book: Manufacturing process has become important in the industrial environment to produce products for the service of mankind. The basic need is to provide theoretical and practical knowledge of manufacturing processes to all the engineering students. This book covers most of the...

Cover -- CONTENTS -- EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARD -- Guest editorial -- The manufacturing extraprise: an emerging production network paradigm -- Strategic roles of manufacturing -- The evolution of production systems and conceptual frameworks -- Strategic options-based framework for management of...

Toward a New Era in U.S. Manufacturing -- Copyright -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Statement of the Problem -- A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON U.S. MANUFACTURING -- THE CURRENT ROLE OF THE MANUFACTURING FUNCTION -- RECENT PERFORMANCE OF U.S. MANUFACTURING --...

The special volume communicates the latest progress and research results of new theory, new technology, method, equipment and so on in advanced manufacturing technology field, and to grasp the updated technological and research trends internationally. The major topics covered by the special...