...C.A. Voss The Managing Advanced Manufacturing Technology (AMT) Conference was held at the University of Warwick in January 1986. The conference theme covered those elements which are part of the total process of management of AMT: manufacturing strategy, technical planning, relations with equipment...

... resources. AMT in Small Companies 39 Usually the managers are so busy running their companies on a day-to-day basis that they are unable to plan for longer term innovation or reorganisation. Nevertheless they are often able to recognise the need for their businesses to encompass the new technologies...

...Christopher A. Voss If the use of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (AMT) is to be successful it is vital to give proper consideration to implementation. Failure usually results because implementation has not been carried out in relation to strategic objectives. As a consequence technical...

...M.R. Harrison The introduction of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (AMT) and the long‐term development of Computer Integrated Manufacture (CIM) present challenges to those engineers and managers who must implement them and those who must manage the total manufacturing system. Basic ideas...