Abstract
This paper discusses a strategy for the introduction of high-techno logy manufacturing methods in a country which is characterized by the dual nature of its situation in the international context. On one hand it has an increasing, unsophisticated population desperately searching for work. On the other, it has a highly-sophisticated manufacturing industry which is falling apart because of the adoption by other nations of highly-efficient manufacturing methods. The paper proposes that one of the strategies necessary to reverse this situation involves the rapid adoption of high-techno logy manufacturing techniques. The paper addresses the issue of education in the broadest sense, ranging from top management, the graduate engineer and the trade-unionist through to the shop floor worker. It is proposed that this education must be accompanied by high-level research and university-and technical-level training. In order to support this, the paper proposes the need to establish a complete full-scale Flexible Manufacturing System which includes all ingredients of modern manufacturing practice, from high-level management tools through to robots on the shop floor. The paper is based on practical experience of a system which is already partly operational and which will be fully operational by the end of 1985.
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