Information Technology and Manufacturing: A Preliminary Report on Research Needs (1993) / Chapter Skim
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Although most of the important recent developments in design and manufacturing come from industry, manufacturing firms and their information technology system vendors need the knowledge base of the academic researchers, and those researchers need new and fundable challenges from the manufacturing environment. Therefore any steps that the National Science Foundation (NSF} might take to foster increased communication between academia and the manufacturing industry could have major long-term impact.
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Industry can also impress upon manufacturing faculty {many of whom have limited expertise in information technology} the need for industry involvement and the increasing importance of information technology to manufacturing. A variety of mechanisms could foster better academic-industrial interaction relating to manufacturing.
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Attention to the managerial and cultural preconditions for effective use of information technology is an important precursor and correlate to the development and application of advanced manufacturing systems.5 Manufacturing managers know that realizing the promise of information technologies to help improve factory performance is not easy. In particular, there are many opportunities for a mismatch.
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Expectations for frequent change and greater employee autonomy imply that the manufacturing enterprise of the future will depend more on the knowledge and skill sets of each employee. Several needs follow from this assumption: · Education of senior managers, to help them make informed decisions about using new, expensive, and perhaps risky information technology; · Education and training of middle managers, to help them reduce barriers to trying new technology that may seem only to consume time and resources or imperil their own jobs; · Education of designers, engineers, manufacturing engineers, and toolmakers to give them an increased technical base so that they can better understand and use computer technology and design relevant software; · Training of factory workers, who are expected to use this new technology to improve their performance and that of their facility; and · Retraining of factory workers whose skills are not compatible with the information technology paradigm and who may have to seek alternative jobs.
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1993. National Collaboratories: Applying Information Technology for Scientific Research.
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