New Directions in Manufacturing

Committee on New Directions in Manufacturing, National Research Council

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Executive Summary; 3 Part I Summary of the Workshop Sessions 1 Manufacturing in the United States; 4 2 Challenges Facing U.S. Manufacturing Today; 5 3 New Directions; 6 Part II Presented Papers: Manufacturing in the U.S. Economy 4 Keynote Address: The Administration's Manufacturing Policy; 7 5 U.S. Manufacturing at the Crossroads; 8 6 Innovation and U.S. Manufacturing; 9 Part III Presented Papers: View from Three Manufacturing Sectors 7 Trends in Rural Manufacturing; 10 8 Issues for Small Manufacturing Enterprises; 11 9 Drivers and Challenges for U.S. Aerospace Manufacturing; 12 Part IV Presented Papers: Manufacturing Globalization 10 Manufacturing Globalization: Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty?; 13 11 Manufacturing Globalization at United Technologies Corporation; 14 12 Insights on Outsourcing; 15 Part V Presented Papers: The Human Element in Manufacturing 13 Keeping America Competitive; 16 14 Economic Challenges to American Manufacturing; 17 15 The Crisis in U.S. Manufacturing: A Union View; 18 16 The Human Component in Manufacturing; 19 Part VI Presented Papers: The Way Forward 17 Standards and Infrastructure; 20 18 Collaborating to Meet Manufacturing Challenges; 21 19 Manufacturing, Energy, and the Future of New Technology; 22 20 Army Manufacturing Technology Program Responds to 21st Century Challenges; 23 21 Turning New Technologies into Products at Sandia National Laboratories; 24 Part VII Presented Papers: New Manufacturing Paradigm 22 Manufacturing in a Digital Era; 25 23 Manufacturing Knowledge and the Arrow of Time; 26 Appendix A Biographical Sketches of Committee Members; 27 Appendix B Workshop Agenda; 28 Appendix C Acronyms and Abbreviations