Frontmatter -- Globalization and Manufacturing Paradigms -- Product Invention Strategy -- Customized, Personalized and Reconfigurable Products -- Mass Production and Lean Manufacturing -- Analysis of Mass Customization -- Traditional Manufacturing Systems -- Economics of System Design -- Reconfigurable Machines -- Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems -- System Configuration Analysis -- Business Models for Global Manufacturing Enterprises -- IT-Based Enterprise Organizational Structure -- Enterprise Globalization Strategies -- The Twenty-first Century Global Manufacturing Enterprise -- Appendix A: Computer Controlled Milling Machine in 1973 -- Appendix B: Three Types of Manufacturing Systems -- Appendix C: Business Cycles -- Appendix D: Term Project: Project Description and Requirements -- Author Biography -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- Wiley Series in Systems Engineering and Management.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book proposes new technologies and new business strategies that can increase an enterprise's speed of responsiveness to volatile markets, as well as enhance the integration of its own engineering and business.
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address
Wiley InterScience
Stock Number
10.1002/9780470618813
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Title
Global manufacturing revolution.
International Standard Book Number
0470583770
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Flexible manufacturing systems.
Globalization.
Manufacturing industries.
Production control.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Production & Operations Management.