Global Manufacturing Competition

Membrane Research in a Global Context Requires Collaboration, not Competition!

SICS in Global Competition

Measuring global competition

The goal of this paper is to describe selected leading indicators of global competitiveness. This will be accomplished by reviewing several selected sources that focus on various metrics. The reported data was determined to be the most recent at the time of a presentation of this material to NFAIS in February 2012. The goal of this paper is to be objective and informational. Each of the selecte...

Collaboration Technologies for Global Manufacturing

One impact of the globalization of manufacturing is the growing requirement for teams that are not colocated to collaborate using shared information. In this paper, we present our approach to instituting and assessing collaboration technologies for manufacturing applications. We provide a brief overview of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and groupware and discuss some potential uses ...

Greening Our Global Manufacturing Enterprise

This report presents a perspective for addressing one of our enterprises main future issues, the Environment. The decision production system perspective represents a product development organization as a network of decision-makers and information processors through which information flows. This representation can be used to improve product development processes by providing a deeper understandi...