Technical Paper
Frameworks and Experimental Protocols for Information-Intensive Manufacturing
1996-05-01
961647
In a recent preliminary report of the National Research Council, it is stated that U.S. manufacturers are increasingly coming to depend upon information technology--computers, communications, and complex systems that combine the two. As a first approximation, any information infrastructure for manufacturing will be based on distributed systems of fast, reliable, and relatively inexpensive computers linked by high-speed, high-bandwidth networks.
