Dispelling the Manufacturing Myth

American Factories Can Compete in the Global Marketplace

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• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Year: 1992
• eBook ISBN: 9780309584166
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Business
• Index: Business

Conventional wisdom holds that high wages, high capital costs, and worker inflexibility have cost America its ability to compete in the world manufacturing marketplace. This book demonstrates that U.S.-based manufacturing can compete in terms of quality, product features, and timely delivery--the real measures of competitiveness in the 1990s.The committee identifies attributes that attract manufacturers to given locations and assesses the attractiveness of the United States as a location for different kinds of manufacturing. The volume dispels myths that have guided management decision making in the past and offers recommendations to promote the United States as a manufacturing site.The volume discusses new approaches to understanding and controlling costs. With case studies from three important industries--consumer electronics, semiconductors, and automobiles--the book explores factors in site location decisions, highlighting advantages the United States can offer as a manufacturing site over low-cost rivals.

Table of contents

• DISPELLING THE MANUFACTURING MYTH
• Copyright
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Contents
• Executive Summary
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Consumer Electronics
• 3 Semiconductors
• 4 Automobiles
• 5 Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index