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Front Matter	i-xii
Executive Summary	1-2	(skim)
Overview	3-24	(skim)
Intelligent Manufacturing Control	25-53	(skim)
Equipment Reliability and Maintenance	54-77	(skim)
Manufacturing of and with Advanced Engineered Materials	78-97	(skim)
Product Realization Process	98-119	(skim)
Manufacturing Skills Improvement	120-139	(skim)
Bibliography	140-146	(skim)
Appendix A: Selected Employment Data	147-153	(skim)
Appendix B: Panels of the Committee on Analysis of Research Directions and Needs in U.S. Manufacturing	154-160	(skim)
Index	161-172	(skim)

Description

To maintain competitiveness in the emerging global economy, U.S. manufacturing must rise to new standards of product quality, responsiveness to customers, and process flexibility. This volume presents a concise and well-organized analysis of new research directions to achieve these goals.
Five critical areas receive in-depth analysis of present practices, needed improvement, and research priorities:

• Advanced engineered materials that offer the prospect of better life-cycle performance and other gains.
• Equipment reliability and maintenance practices for better returns on capital investment.
• Rapid product realization techniques to speed delivery to the marketplace.
• Intelligent manufacturing control for improved reliability and greater precision.
• Building a workforce with the multidisciplinary skills needed for competitiveness.
  

This sound and accessible analysis will be useful to manufacturing engineers and researchers, business executives, and economic and policy analysts.

Authoring Organizations

• Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design (BMED)
• Engineering and Physical Sciences (DEPS)
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