Map and Top: Advanced Manufacturing Communications

by John Dwyer and Adrian Ioannou

Bringing together information scattered among a wide variety of sources, this book is the first to explain in detail the current limits of manufacturing technology and the necessity of a standardized system of communication protocols. Examines alternative communications systems--which led General Motors to put forward the Manufacturing Automation Protocol (MAP), now supplemented by Boeing's Technical Office Protocol (TOP). Illustrates how to further...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470209917
• ISBN13: 9780470209912
• Release Date: December 1987
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 191 Pages