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Index

A

Accounting systems 17 , 74 , 131

Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) 133 , 139 n.9

Adaptive control 33 , 35 , 36–37

Advanced coatings 79

Advanced engineered materials (AEM) 9 , 12 , 21 ,78–80

educational infrastructure 82–83 , 94–96

knowledge-based systems 87–88 , 96–97

metal-matrix composites 81–82 , 91 , 92–93

polymer-based composites 80–81 , 92

potential of 83–85

process simulation and modeling 85–86 , 96–97 , 112

research needs 1 , 2 , 21 , 92–97

sensors 88–89

technical cost modeling 89–92

Advanced manufacturing technology

See also Technology

and competitiveness 1 , 3 , 5 , 17

data collection 11 , 13–14

development of 103–105

and organizational structure 10–11

work force skills and 2 , 7–9 , 17 , 18 , 120 , 126–127 , 132 , 138

Aircraft engine manufacturing 58 , 63–65 , 102

Aishin Seiki pump factory 59–60

Alcoa Research Laboratories 87

Alloys 79

aluminum 87 , 97 n.1

ceramic 84

polymer 81

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titanium 102

Aluminum, graphite-reinforced 91

Aluminum Alloy Design Inventor (ALADIN) 87 , 97 n.1

Analog-to-digital conversions 28

Annealing 84

Apprenticeship 125 , 127

Artificial intelligence 17 , 40 , 57 , 87 , 96–97 , 97 n.1, 116

Automation 109 , 116 , 124

Automobile part manufacturing 58–59 , 80 , 90

B

Bachelor's degree 137

Blacks 152

Blend (alloy) polymers 81

Breakdown maintenance 54 , 57

Business-related assumptions 34 , 35–36

C

Capacity utilization 19 , 74

Capital investment 77 n.3, 78

equipment reliability and maintenance and 9 , 54 , 56–57 , 58 , 61 , 74 , 75

Carnegie Mellon University 87

Ceramics 23

alloys 84

fibers 82 , 83

Chemicals industry 46–49

Closed-loop feedback control 39–40 , 42 , 51

Cognitive science 40

Communication 110

Competitiveness 1 , 9–11

barriers to 16–18

equipment reliability and 54 , 70 , 72

Computer-aided design (CAD) 46 , 48 , 95 , 102 , 115 , 117

Computer-aided engineering (CAE) 107 , 115

Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) 115 , 131

Computer-integrated enterprising (CIE) 113 , 115

Computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) 13 , 42 , 55–56

Computer simulation 85 , 89 , 102 , 112

Computer software in equipment reliability and maintenance 54–55 , 56 , 61 , 69 , 76

in intelligent manufacturing control 20 , 25 , 52

in materials production 88

Computer technology 28

Conceptual design 105–106

Conceptual thinking 136

Concurrent engineering 63 , 76 , 101

Contingencies 36 , 41

Control decisions 29 , 109–110 , 119.

See also Intelligent manufacturing control;

Process control

Cooperative behavior 136–137

Cooperative Hierarchical Image Learning Dynamics (CHILD) 31–32

Copolymers 79

Copper-clad Invar (CIC) 91

Copper-clad molybdenum (CMC) 91

Cornell University 95

Cost accounting systems 17 , 131

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Cost models 68

cost-of-ownership models 112

technical cost modeling 89–92

Cost reduction 69

Costs

education and training 135

equipment reliability and maintenance and 55 , 67 , 68 , 74 , 75

of machine downtime 19–20 , 59 , 74

nonproduction 17

production 17 , 55 , 109 , 110

in product realization process 14 , 101 , 109 , 110

semiconductor manufacturing equipment 61 , 62 , 63

Crystal growth techniques 84 , 102

Customer needs 9

and advanced engineered materials 85

and product realization process 98 , 99 , 100 , 105 , 106 , 107 , 110 , 111 , 115 , 116

D

Data

acquisition and analysis 31 , 32

in advanced manufacturing technology 11 , 13–14

on equipment reliability and maintenance 68

in intelligent manufacturing control 1 , 14 , 15 , 29 , 30 , 38 , 39 , 42 , 44 , 49

for product realization images 115 , 119

Decision making

in cost modeling 90

intelligent manufacturing control 6 , 26–27 , 28–29 , 30 , 35

Least Commitment 97 n.1

manufacturing 73 , 74 , 117

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) 95 , 133

Design 26 , 40

advanced engineered materials 2 , 93

detailed processes 107–108

for manufacturability 78 , 101 , 102 , 109

for product quality 106–107

and product realization process 14 , 100 , 112–113 , 115–116 , 118

for reliability 63–65 , 74

Diesel locomotives 33

Display technologies 116

Distribution systems 26 , 110–111

Downtime costs 19–20 , 59 , 74

Drafting 107

Drucker, Peter 17

E

E-beam submicron lithography 95

Economist 18 , 122

Education 50 , 126

attainment levels 5 , 6 , 120

continuing 124–125

education and training consortia 134–135

faculty 133 , 137

funding 128 , 133 , 134 , 135 , 136 , 137

managerial 133–134

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manufacturing 73 , 97 , 120–122 , 123 , 127 , 128 , 130–131 , 132–133 , 138

materials processing 82–83 , 94–96

microelectronics 128 , 129

paraprofessional 135

teaching factories 94–95 , 96 , 97

teaching methods 137

U.S., inadequacy of 2 , 18 , 22 , 122–123 , 138

Electromechanical equipment 69

Electron beams 84

Electronic materials 84

Electronics manufacturing equipment 8

Employees 99 , 117 .

See also Work force

educational attainment 5 , 6 , 120

performance assessment 17–18 , 122–123

Employment 3–5 , 122 , 148–153

Engineering

advanced manufacturing technology and 10 , 11

of advanced materials 79 , 83 , 87 , 90

education 22 , 124–125 , 130–131 , 133 , 136

and equipment reliability and maintenance 57 , 69 , 72–73

in product realization process 100 , 101 , 107 , 108 , 109 , 115

Engineering Research Centers 135

Engineers, manufacturing 18 , 69 , 73 , 128

Environmental conditions 36

Environmental Research Institute of Michigan 53 n.3

Equipment reliability and maintenance (ERM) 1–2 , 9 , 12 , 15 , 20–21 , 54–57 , 112

automobile parts industry 58–59

barriers to progress 66–70

and competitiveness 54 , 70 , 72

current practice 57–58

potential of 63–66

pump production 59–60

research needs 70–77

semiconductor industry 61–63 , 64 , 65

steam turbine generators 60–61

Etching and deposition 84

Europe 117–118

Expert systems 15 , 17 , 116

and advanced engineered materials 87 , 94

in equipment maintenance 61

and intelligent manufacturing control 33 , 40 , 46 , 47–48

Expertise 41

F

Facility systems 26

Factory as laboratory 18–19 , 22 , 33 , 49 , 50 , 51

Factory yields 63

Faculty 133 , 138

Failure modes and effects criticality analysis (FMECA) 62 , 63

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Feedback

closed-loop control 39–40 , 42 , 51

open-loop control 39 , 49

time 20 , 25 , 26

Feldberg, Meyer 124

Fiber optic sensing 46 , 47

Fiber-reinforced composites 79

Fiber-reinforced polymers 80

Fiber-reinforced thermoplastics 81

Flexibility 10 , 119

Flexible manufacturing systems 7 , 8 , 78 , 93 , 95 , 100 , 109 , 130

Fortune 100 companies 51

Fortune 500 companies 122

Functional integration 14 , 39

Funding, education and training 128 , 133 , 134 , 135 , 136 , 137

G

Gallium arsenide single crystals 84 , 102

Generally accepted accounting principles 74

Germany 120

Global information systems 102

Government 130 , 139

Graphite-reinforced aluminum 91

Great Lakes Manufacturing Technology Center 139 n.7

H

Hierarchical organization 35

High modulus materials 79

High-pressure oxidation 84

High school 138

High-temperature structural materials 79

Hispanics 152

Hot isostatic pressing 102

Hudson Institute 123

Human decision making 28–29

Human knowledge 14 , 31 , 39 , 40 , 42

Human-machine integration 16–17 , 20 , 23 , 25 , 32 , 34 , 49 , 75 , 136–137

Human plane 101

Human resource development 8 , 126

I

Illinois Institute of Technology 95

Imaging techniques 116

Implanter equipment 62–63 , 64

Industrial Technology Institute 31 , 53 n.3

Industry

competitiveness 1 , 9 , 16–18 , 70

design practices 118

education and training in 124–125 , 127 , 130

research in 50–51 , 52

Information

in advanced manufacturing technology 11 , 13–14

in manufacturing control 33 , 35 , 38 , 39 , 40

in product realization process 102

Information plane 101 , 102 , 103 , 118–119

Infrastructure processes 112–113

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Instrumented Factory Gear Center 95

Integrated circuits 8 , 30 , 84 , 95 , 96

Integration

in advanced engineered materials 94 , 96

in advanced manufacturing technology 11 , 14

human-machine 16–17 , 20 , 23 , 25 , 32 , 34 , 49 , 75 , 136–137

in intelligent manufacturing control 31 , 39

sensor 17 , 49 , 50

Intel Corporation 61–63

Intelligence

human-machine 25 , 32 , 34 , 36

machine 14 , 20 , 40–42 , 44 , 49

management 1 , 51

organizational 11 , 14–15

Intelligent manufacturing control (IMC) 6 , 9 , 11 , 13 , 23 , 25–34

and advanced engineered materials 14 , 86 , 87 , 88

in chemicals industry 46–9

data requirements and analysis 14 , 15 , 29–30 , 31

and equipment reliability and maintenance 65–66 , 75

manufacturing assumptions 34–36

and product realization 109–110 , 112

research needs 1 , 20 , 33 , 49–52

in wire-drawing industry 42–45

world model of 36–42 , 49 , 51

Intelligent processing of materials (IPM) 85 , 86 , 87 , 88

Intelligent product realization images 2 , 15 , 21 , 101–102 , 115–116 , 119

International standards 111

Inventory 111

Ion implantation 84

J

Japan 117–118

automotive industry 58–59

education and training 122

equipment reliability and maintenance in 57 , 58–60 , 69 , 76

flexible manufacturing systems 7 , 8

Institute for Plant Maintenance 60 , 70

management skills 18 , 124 , 130 , 134

metalworking industry 7 , 8

pump production 59–60

quality control practices 119 n.1

semiconductor industry 9 , 61

Just-in-time (JIT) 57 , 77 n.1, 111

K

Knowledge, process 34 , 35 , 38 , 39–40 , 41 , 51 , 120

Knowledge-based systems 15 , 33 , 87–88 , 96–97

Knowledge bases 1 , 16 , 32 , 49 , 51

L

Labor utilization 7 , 17 .

See also Work force

Language translators 46 , 48

Laser ablation 96

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Lasers 84 , 89

Lead times 55

Learning

economies of 35

in intelligent control 25 , 32 , 33 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 49

organization 10

and work force skills 18–19 , 23 , 51

Lehigh University 132

Liquid crystalline polymers 80 , 81

Literacy 2 , 22 , 128

Low-skill jobs 122

M

Machine intelligence 14 , 20 , 40–42 , 44 , 49

Machine-machine integration 39

Machine-related assumptions 34–35 , 36

Machine tools 8

Machine utilization 7 , 66 , 130

Maintenance 54 , 57 , 59 , 60 , 63 , 67 , 74 , 111–112

Make-versus-buy decision 105

Management

advanced manufacturing technology and 10 , 11 , 18–19 , 120

and equipment reliability and maintenance 1–2 , 21 , 23 , 57 , 59 , 67–68 , 71–73

and intelligent control 30 , 43 , 51 , 53

and manufacturing skills 124 , 127 , 130 , 133–134 , 138–139

and product realization process 99 , 108 , 110 , 113 , 115 , 117 , 118

Manufacturing 24 n.1, 50 , 76 , 136

advanced technology 22–24 , 28 , 105 , 117 , 130

competitiveness 1 , 2 , 9–11

decision making 74

design for manufacturability 78 , 101 , 102 , 109

education 73 , 130–131 , 133–134

employment 3–5 , 22

engineering and 109 , 128

factory as laboratory 18–19 , 22 , 33 , 49 , 50 , 51

flexible systems 7 , 8 , 78 , 93 , 95 , 100 , 109 , 130

lack of career esteem 18 , 22 , 124 , 126 , 128 , 131

models of 115

of product images 119

as a science 3

Manufacturing assumptions 34–36

Manufacturing capacity 67

Manufacturing control 25 , 38

Manufacturing Educational Centers 135

Manufacturing engineers 18 , 69 , 73 , 128

Manufacturing skills improvement 3–5 , 13 , 120–122

barriers to 126–130

educational deficiencies 2 , 22 , 122–123

necessity of 7 , 9 , 120 , 124–126

research needs 1 , 22 , 130–139

Marketing 102 , 108 , 110–111

time to market 6–7 , 9

Market strategy 100–101 , 105

Martian Rover 30–31

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 132

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Materials composition 102

Materials engineers 85

Materials-specific research 92–93

Mechanization 34

Mechatronic equipment 52 , 55 , 56 , 69

Metal-matrix composites (MMC) 81–82 , 91 , 92–93

Metal oxide chemical vapor deposition 95–96

Metal Oxide Semiconductor Implementation System (MOSIS) 95

Metals 23 , 83–84

Metalworking industry 7 , 8

Microelectronics manufacturing 128 , 129

Microprocessor control systems 25 , 38 , 42 , 43 , 44

Microstructural modeling 86 , 93 , 94

Minorities 124

Model-based reasoning 110

Modularity 111

Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) 84 , 95 , 96

Multi-attribute utility analysis 89

Multilayered heterostructures 79 , 84

Multiobjective problems 90–91

Multiphase alloys 79

N

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 53 n.3, 130

National Center for Research in Vocational Education 125

National defense 126

National Institute of Standards and Technology 130 , 139 n.7

National Research Council 72

National Science Foundation (NSF) 130 , 131 , 138

recommended research funding 132 , 133 , 134 , 136 , 137

National security 8

National Submicron Center 95

National Technological University 132 , 137

Near net shape processes 78 , 102

New York Times 124

Nishio pump factory 59–60

Nonproduction costs 17

Nonvalue-added activities 101

O

Open-loop control systems 39 , 49

Optical materials 79

Order entry 26

Organizational structure 16 , 18–19

compression of hierarchy 6–7 , 20 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27

and product realization process 2 , 98 , 99–100 , 111 , 117–119

Organometallic chemical vapor deposition 84

Output 55

Overhead 69

P

Paraprofessional education 135

Performance measurement 17–19 , 73–74

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Personal computers 52–53

Personnel systems 26

Photolithography 63 , 65 , 84

Physical plane 101

Piezoelectric transducers 88

Plasma-enhanced etching and deposition 84

Polymer-based composites 80–81

Polymers 23 , 83 , 92

Predictive maintenance 23 , 54–55 , 57

Preventive maintenance 54 , 57 , 60 , 69

Printed circuit boards 91

Problem solving 40–41 , 44

Process complexity 30

Process control 9 , 14 , 132

advanced engineered materials 79 , 85 , 87 , 102

costing 19 , 20

data bases 29 , 42

feedback loops 37 , 38 , 39–40 , 42

intelligent manufacturing control 25 , 26 , 33 , 109–110

wire-drawing industry 43 , 44

Process design 72–73 , 86

Process disruptions 30

Process industries 51

Process knowledge 34 , 35 , 38 , 39–40 , 41 , 51 , 120

Process simulation models 15 , 17 , 85–86 , 94 , 96–97 , 102

Process variance 43 , 44

Product cost of ownership 112

Product development life cycle 15 , 115 , 118–119

acceleration of 99 , 100 , 101 , 117

customer requirements and 98

life-cycle design 107–108

life-cycle support 111–112

product design and 109 , 112

simulation 23 , 112

Production 108–110

Production capacity development 108

Production control 131

Production costs 17 , 55 , 109 , 110

Production monitoring system 19 , 74

Productivity 119 , 134

advanced manufacturing technology and 7 , 10

of capital investment 9 , 54

equipment maintenance and 9 , 23 , 54 , 58 , 66 , 76

intelligent manufacturing control and 45

product design and 109 , 112

Product quality 9 , 25 , 28 , 106–107 , 110

Product realization process (PRP) 9 , 12 , 14 , 15 , 23 , 100–103

advanced technology development 103–105

conceptual design 105–106

customer needs and 98 , 99 , 100 , 105 , 106 , 107 , 110 , 111 , 115 , 116

detailed design process 107–108

distribution and marketing 110–111

end-to-end infrastructure processes 112–113

intelligent product images 2 , 15 , 21 , 101–102 , 115–116 , 119

life-cycle support 111–112

organizational framework

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and, 21 , 98 , 99–100 , 117–118

production 108–110

product quality development 106–107

research needs 1 , 2 , 21 , 105 , 106 , 113–119

technological feasibility 21 , 98 , 99

Product specifications 23 , 106 , 115

Profitability 69

Purdue University 132

Q

Quality 9 , 25 , 28 , 106–107

equipment maintenance and 55 , 66 , 76

management and 110 , 134

Quality control 85

Quality loss function 104 , 119 n.1

R

Reliability 3 , 9 , 14 , 68 , 69 , 70 , 76

design for reliability 63–65 , 74

Research needs

advanced engineered materials 1 , 2 , 21 , 92–97

equipment reliability and maintenance 70–77

factory as laboratory 18–19 , 22 , 33 , 49 , 50 , 51

intelligent manufacturing control 1 , 20 , 33 , 49–52

manufacturing skills improvement 1 , 22 , 130–139

product realization process 1 , 2 , 21 , 105 , 106 , 113–119

Risk and value analysis 113

Robotics 131

S

Scale economies 35

Science

manufacturing as 3

technology as 41

Sematech 96

Semiconductor industry 138

equipment reliability and maintenance in 61–63 , 64 , 65

Semiconductors 9

advanced engineered materials in 23 , 79 , 84 , 95–96

Sensor integration 17 , 49 , 50

Sensor technology 1 , 27–28 , 31 , 39–40 , 51

in equipment reliability and maintenance 56 , 63 , 75

in intelligent processing of materials 88–89

in machine intelligence 20 , 25

Simulation 72–73 , 89

process models 15 , 17 , 85–86 , 94 , 96–97 , 102

product life cycle 23 , 112

Simultaneous design 63

Southwestern Bell 122–123

Statistics 132

Steam turbine generators 33 , 60–61

Supermodulus materials 95

Synchrotron radiation 84

T

Taguchi, Genichi 104 , 119 n.1

Taxation 127 , 128

Teaching factories 94–95 , 96 , 97

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Team concept 118

Technical cost modeling 89–92

Technological feasibility, product 21 , 98 , 99

Technology 16–17.

See also Advanced manufacturing technology

and decision making 26–27 , 28

diffusion of 50 , 51–52

and equipment reliability and maintenance 70

and materials development 84–85

and product realization 98 , 99 , 100 , 102 , 117–118 , 119

as science 41

transfer of 105 , 139 n.7

Technology management 72 , 130 , 134 , 138–139

Theoretical capacity 55 , 74

Thermoplastics 80–81

Thermostatic control 36–37

Tiger teams 101

Time-based competition 100

Time to market 6–7 , 9

Titanium alloys 102

Training programs 125 , 127–128

education and training consortia 134–135

Transducers 28 , 88

Transfer press 58

U

Unified Technology Center 139 n.7

United States

design practices in 107

educational system 2 , 18 , 22 , 73 , 122–123 , 131 , 138

flexible manufacturing systems in 7 , 8

industrial competitiveness 1 , 9 , 16–18 , 70

management practices in 69 , 124–126 , 127 , 134

manufacturing technology in 2 , 29 , 57–58 , 65–66 , 117–118

quality improvement in 119 n.1

semiconductor industry 61

utilities industry 60

U.S. Department of Commerce 134

U.S. Department of Defense 8 , 124 , 126 , 128

U.S. Department of Labor 123

Universities 128–130 , 132 , 134 , 136

University of Southern California 95

University of Wisconsin 132

User training 30

Utilities industry 60

V

Very large scale integration (VSLI) chips 83

Village industry 118

Vocational education 135

W

Wafer etch equipment 62–63 , 64

Wall Street Journal 122

Wave-soldering machines 33

Wire-drawing industry 42–45

Women 124

Work force 25

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educational attainment 5 , 6 , 120

employment trends 3–5 , 122 , 148–153

labor utilization 7 , 17

skills improvement 2 , 3–5 , 9 , 30 , 122 , 124–125 , 127–128 , 130–131 , 138

Work organization 117

Work-in-process inventory 63

Work teams 99–100 , 119 , 126–127

World War II 126

X

X-rays 84

Z

Zero defects 3 , 59

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