In this article Danny T Quah examines how, when an economy grows, its patterns of production and consumption systematically change. He describes one such large-scale evolution, namely, the increasing weightlessness of aggregate output across advanced economies. In all fast-growing successful countries, growth in information technology has contributed positively both to increasing weightlessness...

The need for technology transfer from universities to industry is a theme that resonates throughout many advanced countries of the world. This paper explores the effectiveness and efficiency of Business and Management schools in transferring technology through formal Knowledge Transfer schemes; it examines the value and impact of these activities by reporting on the outputs from thirteen major ...

This paper shows that deindustrialization is explained primarily by developments that are internal to the advanced economies. These include the combined effects on manufacturing employment of a relatively faster growth of productivity in manufacturing, the associated relative price changes, and shifts in the structure of demand between manufactures and services. North-south trade explains less ...

The goals of this paper are to 1) examine the current practices of diagnostics, prognostics, and maintenance employed by United States (U.S.) manufacturers to achieve productivity and quality targets and 2) to understand the present level of maintenance technologies and strategies that are being incorporated into these practices. A study is performed to contrast the impact of various industry-s...

SYSTEM CONSIDERATIONS IN MONOZUKURI MANUFACTURING THE modern world faces many very difficult challenges, including global warming, resource and energy depletion, and rapid socioeconomic change. At the same time, while rapid progress is being made on establishing the foundations of a prosperous society, there are also calls from around the world for highly reliable social infrastructure that pro...

The e-mass-customisation is one of tendencies in production, where which client details products using e-means. This imposes integration and advanced manufacturing-entity collaborations, aiming at adaptability to achieve product heterogeneity and response agility. An integration element of management and shop-floor systems is the Manufacturing Execution System (MES), which may integrate smart-p...

Manufacturing produces real wealth for any country and constitutes the back bone for the service sector. The objective of any organization is to earn profit. Usually the market fixes the selling price of the manufactured components. Unless there is focus on the manufacturing strategy of reducing manufacturing cost, it is very difficult to sustain in this ever competitive world. A suitable manuf...

The main goal of this work is the analysis potential energy and green benefits 3D printing on building construction. Current literature reports a considerable number for printing, namely, reduction material use, lower operational costs time-saving. authors also mention design freedom, higher efficiency, productivity quality. This presents latest developments in civil engineering, review last pr...