2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
The Objectives of Manufacturing Development
Author : Engelbert Westkämper
Published in: Towards the Re-Industrialization of Europe
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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The influencing “megatrends”, the experiences of the actual financial crisis and opportunities of new technologies require a radical change of paradigms from economic orientation
towards sustainable development
in all sectors of manufacturing in the next decades. The objectives of manufacturers change from cost and short profits to competition and sustainability.