This study examines technology use in Canada’s manufacturing sector, and how a set of technology-using manufacturing establishments performed relative to non-users. Data originates from a recent Statistics Canada survey, asking manufacturing firms about their use of 22 advanced manufacturing technologies, and panel data taken from the Census of Manufacturers. Results show that the use of advanc...

This paper investigates the characteristics of Canadian manufacturing plants that are related to the use of advanced technologies. The data used are taken from the 1989 Survey of Manufacturing Technology and are linked to administrative data taken from the Census of Manufacturers. Technology use is defined first as incidence (whether a technology is used) and second as intensity (the number of ...

This paper explores whether defense contractors’ manufacturing technology advantages over purely commercial firms might be associated with differences in their workforce and organizational practices. I use unique original data collected specifically to test workforce and organizational complementarities in implementation of advanced manufacturing technology in small manufacturers. I find that d...

This paper reports work carried out within the BIOLAB consortium of the CEC Advanced Informatics in Medicine (AIM) programme. The overall purpose of the work is to assess the potential for commercially available parallel computer systems to enhance practical applications of medical image analysis. Here, we report methods developed for using the Active Memory Technology (AMT) DAP as a "compute s...

Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT) provides a fixed set of out-of-band manageability features that work independently of the operating system (OS) and work even when the computer is sleeping. In this article, we take a look at how to make use of Intel AMT well beyond its intended design, and we examine how these new usages increase the value of deploying and activating Intel® vPro...

The development of the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS) Mobile Terminal (AMT) and its follow-on, the Broadband Aeronautical Terminal (BAT), have provided an excellent testbed for the evaluation of Kand Ka-band mobile satellite communications systems. Such systems have proven viable for many different commercial and government applications. Combining emerging satellite communi...

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...