机械类英文论文.doc

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Manufacturing Technology Facing the 21st Century
1．Agile Manufacturing
Rapid, severe, and uncertain change inually fragmenting global markets for high quality, high performance, customer configured goods and services.
Agility is, in the end, about making money in and from a turbulent, intensely competitive business environment.
2．A New Manufacturing Strategy
Reforms introduced by companies since the early 1980s to improve their competitiveness just-in-time logistics, the quality movement, "lean" manufacturing--have been tactical responses to marketplace pressures. These reforms aim to improve how companies are doing what they are already doing. Although these efforts are appropriate and valuable, they reflect an acceptance of the status quo, rather than a recognition of the need to
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confront a new competitive reality, one that challenges what companies ought to be doing, not just how they can do a better job of what they are already doing.
As a matter of fact, most companies have adopted a succession of tactical initiatives without anchoring the rationale for their implementation in new ends that mandate fundamental changes, true paradigm shifts in how those companies operate. The result is that, in company after company, managerial reforms has invariably set in. however. Innovative tactics will always be short-lived unless they are embedded