""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""; ""VISION""; ""PRESENT AND FUTURE PRACTICE""; ""Manufacturing Assumptions""; ""An Architecture for IMC�the World Model""; ""Integration""; ""Control""; ""Intelligence""; ""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""; ""NOTES""; ""3 Equipment Reliability and Maintenance""; ""IMPORTANCE""
""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""; ""VISION""; ""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""; ""NOTES""; ""4 Manufacturing of and with Advanced Engineered Materials""; ""STATE OF THE ART""
