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15 Technical and Economic Contexts
Pages 181-186

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From page 181...
... The U.S. manufacturing sector contributes approximately one-fifth of the gross domestic product, directly employs a work force of over 19 million in 360,000 companies, and supports an additional 25 million workers in related industries (Manufacturing Subcouncil, 1993~.
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From page 182...
... The areas of manufacturing designated as critical include flexible computerintegrated manufacturing, manufacturing systems management, and intelligent processing equipment, as well as microfabrication and nanofabrication. In order for these critical technologies to be fully developed and exploited in the marketplace, substantial process knowledge will be required.
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From page 183...
... , which judged the present position of several material processing technologies, production systems, and process equipment categories. While these assessments were done at a high level and may be overly simplistic, taken as a whole they raised concern about the condition of manufacturing technologies in the United States.
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From page 184...
... Up. POSITION Strong Competitive Weak Losing Lost Badly .
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From page 185...
... They are development of process technologies (the subject of this report) ; investment in manufacturing facilities; and education and training of the work force.
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... Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. National Science Board.
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