1989 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Management Overview
Author : ESPRIT Consortium AMICE
Published in: Open System Architecture for CIM
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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The manufacturing process, i.e. the transformation of raw material into marketable products is changing from a semi-stable process to a highly dynamic one. The reasons for this change are manifold and only some of the major reasons are listed in the following: World-wide availability of technology, capital and information (know-how) leads to short development cycles for new products.World-wide marketing of products leads to strong cost competition in established markets.Fast changes in market demands leads to fast obsolescence of established products