Next Generation Manufacturing Methods and Techniques

Manufacturing Excitement! The New Competition. Meeting Balanced Corporate Goals. From Operational Strategies to Implementation Substrategies. Organizing the Company for Next Generation Manufacturing. The Voice of the Customer-Again. Product Realization. Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD). Modeling and Simulation. Next Generation Processes and Equipment. Extended Enterprise Collaboration. Systems Support for Extended RPPR. The Innovative NGM Company. Managing and Measuring Change. The Knowledge Enterprise. Working in the NGM Company. Information Systems Integration. Measuring the NGM Company. Integrating the Enterprise for Next Generation Manufacturing. Into the Future. Index.