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Exports and local development : Mexico's new maquiladoras
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ISBN: 0292766092 0292751443 Year: 1992 Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press,

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Mexico's export assembly industry has been the object of an intensely polarized debate. While some observers laud the maquiladora industry as a source of much-needed employment and foreign exchange for Mexico, others berate it as a vehicle for exploitation and pollution. Exports and Local Development attempts to transcend the dichotomy by taking a practical look at how this export industry could be better utilized to promote local development. Using data gathered from a field survey of more than seventy maquiladora plants, Patricia A. Wilson compares the Mexican industry with its more successful Asian counterparts to determine how policy initiatives might help Mexico use local linkages to tap the potential of both local and foreign-owned assembly plants. The study grounds its analysis of the maquiladora industry in leading-edge issues including the rise of free trade, changing corporate sourcing strategies, the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing, the Japanese challenge, the spread of flexible technology and management methods, the impacts of export-led development strategies, the importance of business networking, and the role of small business. It will be of interest to a wide audience in international business, economic development planning, public policy, and economic geography.

Flexible assembly systems
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ISBN: 0948507888 9780948507885 Year: 1988 Publisher: Kempston IFS publications

Flexible manufacturing systems : recent developments
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ISBN: 9780444897985 0444897984 9780080531694 0080531695 1281077143 9781281077141 9786611077143 Year: 1995 Publisher: New York ; Amsterdam : Elsevier,

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Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) involve substituting machines capable of performing a wide and redefinable variety of tasks for machines dedicated to the performance of specific tasks. FMS can also be programmed to handle new products, thus extending the machines' life cycles. Thus they represent a change from ""standardized goods produced by customized machines"" to ""customized goods produced by standardized machines"". This volume contains new and updated material in this field, and will be of great interest to researchers, managers and students concerned with problems related to flexi

Growing modular : mass customization of complex products, services and software
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ISBN: 128023492X 9786610234929 3540274308 3540239596 3642063047 Year: 2005 Publisher: Berlin : Springer,

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The Time for Mass Customization Has Arrived Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas Edison There’s an allegory that many inventors have used to define their moment of inspiration when diligence, a strong work ethic and imagination met at the intersection of unmet needs – and a paradigm shift in technology happened. Thomas Edison once said that opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. That’s the case with mass customization, make-to-order, configure-to-order and engineer-to-order product strategies globally, across manufacturers and service organizations today. In the work of mass customization are significant rewards to customer responsiveness, service, and financial performance of any organization. Aiming at the goal of driving lean manufacturing, companies are finding that the strategies that looked like the hardest work, dressed in overalls as Edison would say, are delivering the biggest impact on the financial statements of the companies that boldly take on serving customers in entirely new ways. Driving costs of organizations through more accuracy in orders, assuring that highly configured products are actually what a customer has ordered, and making the many product attributes in complex products accessible for the creation of entirely new production workflows and products, is real and is delivering costs savings while driving up margins.

Modelling and design of flexible manufacturing systems
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ISBN: 0444425969 Year: 1986 Volume: 3 Publisher: Amsterdam Elsevier

Agile manufacturing
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ISBN: 1281058696 9786611058692 0080526888 008043567X 9780080435671 9780080526881 Year: 2001 Publisher: Oxford New York Elsevier

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Agile manufacturing is defined as the capability of surviving and prospering in a competitive environment of continuous and unpredictable change by reacting quickly and effectively to changing markets, driven by customer-designed products and services. Critical to successfully accomplishing AM are a few enabling technologies such as the standard for the exchange of products (STEP), concurrent engineering, virtual manufacturing, component-based hierarchical shop floor control system, information and communication infrastructure, etc. The scope of the book is to present the undergradu

Proceedings of the second ORSA/TIMS conference on flexible manufacturing systems : operations research models and applications held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, August 12-15, 1986
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ISBN: 0444426795 9780444426796 Year: 1986 Volume: 5 Publisher: Amsterdam Elsevier

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