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1 The 2020 Vision
Pages 8-12

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... Envisioning the future is, therefore, the key to influencing the future. METHODOLOGY The Committee on Visionary Manufacturing Challenges was established by the National Research Council's Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design to identify the major challenges that will face manufacturing enterprises in 2020 and the enabling technologies to address these challenges.
From page 9...
... Major Forces for Change rl~he nature of manufacturing enterprises will evolve in response to changes in the technological, political, and economic climate. The committee believes that the following factors will be the most important to the development of manufacturing: · The competitive climate, enhanced by communication and knowledge sharing, will require rapid responses to market forces.
From page 10...
... A readily available generic transaction and alliance infrastructure (e.g., equitable profit sharing and business processes for protecting intellectual property) will enable individuals and entrepreneurial teams to compete solely on the basis of skills and knowledge.
From page 11...
... All aspects of developing a manufacturing enterprise, including developing business and marketing strategies, research, and product innovation, will be concurrent. Enterprise teams will interact continuously with each other and with computer-based system synthesis models to explore the complete range of configurations and resources to realize new products.
From page 12...
... The focus on sustainable, low-waste production processes will intensify as the global ecosystem is strained by growing populations and the development of new high technology economies and as awareness and global economic forces increase the need for responsible environmental stewardship. Improved process controls, the recycling and reuse of process waste streams, and new synthetic pathways will result in near-zero discharge processes.


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