critical success factors and emerging issues and trends in engineering 2

[snibril]

I am doing some research on the general engineering and manufacturing industry, with a particular interest in jobbing and foundry operations. I am trying to determine critical success factors relating to this industry and emerging issues and trends facing companies. <br>
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Where could I source such information, particularly statistics? Any assistance would be much appreciated. <br>
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Thanks<br>

 

[BML]

One item you may wish to consider is flexibility - the ability of a process to switch between products of varying complexity and similarity. One example that comes to mind is a paper that was published, I believe, in the Harvard Business Review. It's a case study of the paper industry, and the processes should correlate fairly well to those of foundries, especially those that manufacture coil metals. Also check out

http://www.superfactory.com

as they have several good links to both established and emerging engineering practices.

 

[snibril]

Much appreciated, thanks

 

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