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The Impact on Production Management

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The Managerial Implications of Microelectronics

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Around the world, leading manufacturers are firmly established in a trend to reduce or eliminate man from the shop floor and production lines. The major reason is the realisation that man contributes nothing to the production process that cannot be done better or more efficiently by automation.

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Brian C. Twiss (Assistant Director of Management Development Programmes and Head of the Bradford Group for Forecasting and Policy Alternatives)

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Bestwick, P.F., Owen, A.E. (1981). The Impact on Production Management. In: Twiss, B.C. (eds) The Managerial Implications of Microelectronics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05186-1_7

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