Book Reviews : Software and the Agile Manufacturer: Computer Systems and World Class Manufacturing: Authored by Brian H. Maskell; Published by Productivity Press Inc., P.O. Box 13390, Portland, OR © 1994 424 pages ISBN: 1-56327-046-3

are generally descriptive, this text provides the basic equations and data that allow manufacturing and assembly cost estimates to be made. Thus, for a limited range of materials and processes the engineer or student can make cost estimates for real parts and assemblies and, therefore, become familiar with the details of the methods employed and the assumptions made. In this text &dquo;manufacture&dquo; refers to the manufactunng of the individual component parts of a product or assembly and that &dquo;assemble&dquo; refers to the addition or joining of parts to form the completed product. This means that for the purposes of this text, assembly is considered a manufacturing process in the same sense that machining, molding, etc., are considered manufacturing pro-