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Integrated Manufacturing Systems Engineering Pierre Ladet and Franqois Vernadat, editors 1995 Chapman & Hall, 300 pp., $109.95
Integrated Manufacturing Systems Engineering is a companion book to Enterprise Modeling and Integration Principles and Applications. The book is a collection of 20 technical papers by various authors organized into eight distinct parts. Presented are advanced topics on manufacturing systems modeling, specification, and integration as a contribution to an emerging discipline called Enterprise Engineering.
Part one introduces the issues and challenges facing integrated manufacturing systems engineering and reviews the different aspects of Enterprise Engineering. Part two...