Purpose – The actual benefits of the AMT solidarity to the manufacturing system, classified as systemic, will only be acquired and identified if the current design and organizational structure become compatible with the change being introduced. The purpose of this paper is to present a review for the organizational design development related to AMT assumption and the green manufacturing (GM) in...

Purpose – The actual benefits of the AMT solidarity to the manufacturing system, classified as systemic, will only be acquired and identified if the current design and organizational structure become matchable with the change being introduced. The purpose of this paper is to present a review for the organizational design development related to AMT assumption and the green manufacturing (GM) inv...

This paper presents firstly in the world the framework of Grid manufacturing, which neatly combines Grid technology with the infrastructure of advanced manufacturing technology. It studies the Grid-oriented knowledge description and acquisition, and constructs the distributed Knowledge Grid model. It also deals with the protocol of node description in collaborative design, and builds up the dis...

This paper documents the relationship between capital intensity, the use of advanced manufacturing technology, growth rates, and exit probabilities for a sample of U.S. manufacturing plants. It utilizes data from a unique establishment survey of technology usage that allows us to control for both the quantity and heterogeneity of capital in the plant. The main findings are that capital-intensiv...

The Cambridge Handbooks on Construction Robotics series focuses on the implementation of automation and robot technology to renew the construction industry and to arrest its declining productivity. The series is intended to give professionals, researchers, lecturers, and students basic conceptual and technical skills and implementation strategies to manage, research, or teach the implementation...

Survival and success in present turbulent times increasingly depends on competitiveness. Competitiveness comes through an integrated effort across different functions and deployment of advanced manufacturing technologies. Advanced manufacturing technology (AMT) plays a major role in quality and flexibility improvements in manufacturing organizations. The automated “factory of the future” is see...

Integrated circuits (ICs) are at the heart of modern electronics, which rely heavily on the state-of-the-art semiconductor manufacturing technology. The key to pushing forward semiconductor technology is IC feature-size miniaturization. However, this brings ever-increasing design complexities and manufacturing challenges to the $350 billion semiconductor industry. The manufacturing of two-dimen...