Visionary Manufacturing Challenges for 2020
eBook - PDF

Visionary Manufacturing Challenges for 2020

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  1. 173 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Visionary Manufacturing Challenges for 2020

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About this book

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 ten strategic technology areas as the most important for research and development and they recommend ways to address crosscutting questions. Representing a variety of industries, the authors identify six "e;grand challenges"e; that must be overcome for their vision to be realized, including the human/technology interface, environmental concerns, and miniaturization.A host of issues are discussed that will push and pull at manufacturing over the next 20 years: the changing workforce, the changing consumer, the rise of bio- and nanotechnology, the prospects for waste-free processing, simulation and modeling as design tools, shifts in global competition, and much more.The information and analyses in this book will be vitally important to everyone concerned about the future of manufacturing: policymakers, executives, design and engineering professionals, researchers, faculty, and students.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Preface
  4. Contents
  5. Tables, Figures, and Boxes
  6. Executive Summary
  7. 1 The 2020 Vision
  8. 2 Grand Challenges for Manufacturing
  9. 3 Priority Technologies and Supporting Research
  10. 4 Preparing for 2020
  11. References
  12. APPENDIX A Summary of Workshop on Visionary Manufacturing Challenges
  13. APPENDIX B Delphi Survey: Methodology and Results
  14. APPENDIX C Delphi Survey Questionnaires
  15. APPENDIX D Biographical Sketches of Committee Members