Information Technology for Manufacturing

Information Technology for Manufacturing

A Research Agenda

  • Editor: National Academies Press
  • ISBN: 9780309051798
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780309521185
  • eISBN Epub: 9780309176712
  • Lugar de publicación:  Estados Unidos
  • Año de publicación digital: 1995
  • Mes: Febrero
  • Páginas: 191
  • Idioma: Ingles

This book describes a vision of manufacturing in the twenty-first century that maximizes efficiencies and improvements by exploiting the full power of information and provides a research agenda for information technology and manufacturing that is necessary for success in achieving such a vision. Research on information technology to support product and process design, shop-floor operations, and flexible manufacturing is described. Roles for virtual manufacturing and the information infrastructure are also addressed. A final chapter is devoted to nontechnical research issues.

  • Cover
  • Front Matter
  • Executive Summary
  • 1 Vision and Recommended Areas of Research
  • 2 Manufacturing: Context, Content, and History
  • 3 Integrated Product and Process Design
  • 4 Shop Floor Production
  • 5 Modeling and Simulation For the Virtual Factory
  • 6 Information Infrastructure Issues
  • 7 Organizational and Societal Infrastructure
  • Bibliography
  • Appendix A List of Contributors
  • Appendix B Site Visit to Romeo Engine Plant, March 23, 1994
  • Appendix C Illustrative Advanced Long-range Technology Demostrations

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