Visionary Manufacturing Challenges for 2020

by Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, National Research Council, Committee on Visionary Manufacturing Challenges

Manufacturing will unquestionably be a very different enterprise in 2020 from what it is today. This book presents an exciting picture of the profitable and productive potential of manufacturing two decades hence.

This book takes an international view of future manufacturing that considers the leaps and bounds of technological innovation and the blurring of the lines between the manufacturing and service industries. The authors identify...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309061822
• ISBN13: 9780309061827
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.8"