Capital equipment manufacturing and related activities present an opportunity for fostering regional industrialisation and integration due to the large scope for developing productive capabilities through aftermarket services and strong complementarities between mining, construction and rail...

3D printing is a new manufacturing method used to make customized products that is also instrumental in driving manufacturing innovation. The global market for this technology has expanded rapidly thanks to a sharp increase in industrial applications. However growth of the Korean 3D printing...

To what extent did government policies during World War I encourage American manufacturers to adopt mass production techniques? Historical studies have illuminated the military origins of many of the technologies underlying mass production and the social and economic circumstances that have...

Questions of the rate fixing of different indexes of work of industrial enterprises are considered in the article. Special attention is paid to indexes which form the separate constituents of the innovative potential of machine manufacturing enterprises. The author offers two different...

Questo articolo, utilizzando fonti primarie e secondarie, mira a fornire un’analisi delle principali caratteristiche del distretto della giostra del Polesine, parte del più ampio distretto veneto della giostra, e a descriverne e comprenderne le principali traiettorie di cambiamento che lo...

When Vietnam joined the WTO, it accepted foreign direct investment and started to grow. Technically, it was then greatly influenced by the enterprises that entered the country through direct investment. This report shows that the technology network for machine tools is formed via direct...

In this paper one presents and discuss the hybridation concept using some aspect that integrate it, as the physical architecture of automated systems (hardware), the information system that integrates that architecture and the working places design. Analyzed are also the inter-dependences of...

In the Global Knowledge Economy one may notice,the changes in the structure of developed countries economy, in the nature of the activities within industries as well as into the relationship between different industries. The most important of them are: the increasing importance of services and...

The design of jobs is defined and its different implications. These aspects must be taken into consideration when applied to new automated systems, once it can occur workers in-adaptations to certain type of activity and tasks. Other concepts that emerge from this are the mental workload,...

The current paper aimed to investigate the reasons for the technological and competitive heterogeneity in the machine tool industry in Brazil. By analyzing the trajectory of the sector, we can highlight three main reasons for such heterogeneity. First, due to the competitive framework that...