7. Management of Industrial Technologies

The technology can be considered a systematic, knowledge-based action, applicable in industrial processes in order to transform resources into products requested by the customer. Technology uses scientific resources but is, at the same time, itself a science of applying knowledge for practical purposes. Technology is ultimately the measure of the efficiency of industrial management. The management, as a science, takes the information regarding the management processes and submits them to some analysis procedures in order to perfect the existing management methods and to complete them with new ones. The applicative character of the management results from the fact that the experiences regarding the systems management are materialized in the design of new systems, methods, techniques, and procedures that constitute the tools made available to the managers for achieving the company's objectives. The manager must prove the ability to understand economic and social phenomena, the laws that govern them, objectively identifying the risks and opportunities, in order to plan the company's activities. An equidistant, efficient and coherent policy established by the management guarantees the success and ensures the agreement of the company's existence with the market evolution.