| Description |
xii, 320 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-306) and index. |
| Contents |
How manufacturing will work -- One hundred twenty-seven wild cards : who we will be, and what we will do -- Whack, why you can't get there from here -- Technology rules! The PLC breakthrough -- Intelligent systems that will get us there : chaos, complex adaptive systems, and other enabling technologies -- The big, big wave : four software meta-systems that will transform manufacturing -- Managing the technology machine -- Two meta-systems : the bullet train and plastics! -- In the land where the engineer is king -- Silicon life on a carbon planet. |
| Subject |
Production engineering -- Technological innovations.
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Manufactures -- Technological innovations.
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Industrial management.
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| Added Author |
Morley, Richard E., 1932-
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| ISBN |
0684837099 |
| Standard No. |
UKM bA247835 |
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NLGGC 184519454 |
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