The Competitive edge : research priorities for U.S. manufacturing / Committee on Analysis of Research Directions and Needs in U.S. Manufacturing [and] Manufacturing Studies Board, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, National Research Council.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Analysis of Research Directions and Needs in U.S. Manufacturing.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Production engineering--Research--United States.

Production engineering.

Manufacturing processes--Research--United States.

Manufacturing processes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 172 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

To maintain competitiveness in the emerging global economy, U.S. manufacturing must rise to new standards of product quality, responsiveness to customers, and process flexibility. This volume presents a concise and well-organized analysis of new research directions to achieve these goals. Five critical areas receive in-depth analysis of present practices, needed improvement, and research priorities: Advanced engineered materials that offer the prospect of better life-cycle performance and other gains. Equipment reliability and maintenance practices for better returns on capital investment. Rapid product realization techniques to speed delivery to the marketplace. Intelligent manufacturing control for improved reliability and greater precision. Building a workforce with the multidisciplinary skills needed for competitiveness. This sound and accessible analysis will be useful to manufacturing engineers and researchers, business executives, and economic and policy analysts.

Contents:

The Competitive Edge

Copyright

Preface

Contents

Executive Summary

1 Overview

CHANGING GROUND RULES OF MANUFACTURING COMPETITIVENESS

A THREE-PRONGED THEORETICAL BASIS

Information

Integration

Intelligence

BARRIERS TO COMPETITIVENESS

Inflexible Organizations

Inadequate Technology Base

Inappropriate Performance Measures

Lack of Career Esteem

STEPS FOR CHANGING

FINDINGS OF THE PANELS

Intelligent Manufacturing Control

Equipment Reliability and Maintenance

Advanced Engineered Materials

Product Realization Process

Manufacturing Skills Improvement

VISION

NOTES

2 Intelligent Manufacturing Control

IMPORTANCE

PRESENT AND FUTURE PRACTICE

Manufacturing Assumptions

An Architecture for IMC-the World Model

Control

Case Studies

IMC in the Wire-Drawing Industry

IMC in the Chemicals Industry-Five Years from Today

PRIORITIZED RESEARCH RECOMMENDATIONS

MECHANISMS FOR DIFFUSION AND IMPLEMENTATION

3 Equipment Reliability and Maintenance

PRESENT PRACTICE

U.S./Japanese Automobile Part Stamping

Near Defect-Free Pump Production

Diagnostic Monitoring of Steam Turbine Generators

ERM in the U.S. Semiconductor Industry

BARRIERS TO PROGRESS

Lack of Awareness

Lack of Data

Lack of Skills

RESEARCH NEEDS

People-Related Needs

Equipment-Related Needs

Performance measurement

Tools and techniques

Methodologies

Summary

4 Manufacturing of and with Advanced Engineered Materials

STATE OF THE ART

Materials Processing and Manufacturing

Polymer-Based Composites

Metal-Matrix Composites

Educational Infrastructure

CHALLENGES

Process Simulation and Modeling

Knowledge-Based Systems

Sensors

Technical Cost Modeling.

RESEARCH NEEDS

Materials

Education and Training

Research Guidelines

NOTE

5 Product Realization Process

Customers

Technology

Organization

Conclusions

Advanced Technology Development

Definition

Present practice

Vision

Conceptual Design

Present Practice

Development of Product Quality

Detailed Product Design Process

Production Capacity Development

Production

Distribution and Marketing

Life-Cycle Support

End-to-End Infrastructure Processes

Cross-Cutting Issues

Intelligent Images

Linkages and Relationships

Organizational Framework

6 Manufacturing Skills Improvement

BARRIERS AND CHALLENGES

RESEARCH NEEDS AND GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS

Priority One: Collaborative Education in Manufacturing Skills

Rationale

Recommendation

Comment

Priority Two: Educational Level-Faculty

Priority Three: Education of Managers

Priority Four: Establishment of Education and Training Consortia

Priority Five: Educational Level-Paraprofessional (Two-year Colleges/Vocational Schools)

Conceptual Thinking

Cooperative Behavior

Effective and Efficient Teaching Methods

Educational Level-Bachelor's Degree

Educational Level-Through High School

Summary.

NOTES

Bibliography

Appendix A Selected Employment Data

Appendix B Panels of the Committee on Analysis of Research Directions and Needs in U.S. Manufacturing

PANEL ON INTELLIGENT MANUFACTURING CONTROL

Liaisons to the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences

PANEL ON EQUIPMENT RELIABILITY AND MAINTENANCE

PANEL ON MANUFACTURING OF AND WITH ADVANCED ENGINEERED MATERIALS

Liaison to the Department of Defense

Liaison to the Committee

PANEL ON RAPID PRODUCT REALIZATION PROCESS

PANEL ON MANUFACTURING SKILLS IMPROVEMENT

PANEL ON ALTERNATIVE CONCEPTS IN MANUFACTURING

Liaison to the Industrial Technology Institute

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 140-146) and index.

ISBN:

9786610196180

9781280196188

1280196181

9780309556132

0309556139

OCLC:

427374957