Patricia E. Moody is the former editor of AME's Target magazine, where she created breakthrough work on teams, Kaizen, new product development, and supply chain issues. She is a well-known manufacturing management consultant and writer with more than twenty-five years of industry and consulting experience. Her client list includes such industry leaders as Solectron, Motorola, Johnson & Johnson, and Mead Corporation.

• ContentsPrefaceIntroduction 1 How Manufacturing Will Work 2 One Hundred Twenty-seven Wild Cards -- Who We Will Be, and What We Will Do 3 WHACK, Why You Can't Get There from Here 4 Technology Rules! The PLC Breakthrough 5 Intelligent Systems that Will Get Us There -- Chaos, Complex Adaptive Systems, and Other Enabling Technologies 6 The Big, Big Wave -- Four Software Meta-Systems that Will Transform Manufacturing 7 Managing the Technology Machine 8 Two Meta-Systems: The Bullet Train and Plastics! 9 In the Land Where the Engineer Is King 10 Silicon Life on a Carbon Planet Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index About the Authors

Patricia E. Moody is the former editor of AME's Target magazine, where she created breakthrough work on teams, Kaizen, new product development, and supply chain issues. She is a well-known manufacturing management consultant and writer with more than twenty-five years of industry and consulting experience. Her client list includes such industry leaders as Solectron, Motorola, Johnson & Johnson, and Mead Corporation.

• ContentsPrefaceIntroduction 1 How Manufacturing Will Work 2 One Hundred Twenty-seven Wild Cards -- Who We Will Be, and What We Will Do 3 WHACK, Why You Can't Get There from Here 4 Technology Rules! The PLC Breakthrough 5 Intelligent Systems that Will Get Us There -- Chaos, Complex Adaptive Systems, and Other Enabling Technologies 6 The Big, Big Wave -- Four Software Meta-Systems that Will Transform Manufacturing 7 Managing the Technology Machine 8 Two Meta-Systems: The Bullet Train and Plastics! 9 In the Land Where the Engineer Is King 10 Silicon Life on a Carbon Planet Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index About the Authors

Patricia E. Moody is the former editor of AME's Target magazine, where she created breakthrough work on teams, Kaizen, new product development, and supply chain issues. She is a well-known manufacturing management consultant and writer with more than twenty-five years of industry and consulting experience. Her client list includes such industry leaders as Solectron, Motorola, Johnson & Johnson, and Mead Corporation.

• ContentsPrefaceIntroduction 1 How Manufacturing Will Work 2 One Hundred Twenty-seven Wild Cards -- Who We Will Be, and What We Will Do 3 WHACK, Why You Can't Get There from Here 4 Technology Rules! The PLC Breakthrough 5 Intelligent Systems that Will Get Us There -- Chaos, Complex Adaptive Systems, and Other Enabling Technologies 6 The Big, Big Wave -- Four Software Meta-Systems that Will Transform Manufacturing 7 Managing the Technology Machine 8 Two Meta-Systems: The Bullet Train and Plastics! 9 In the Land Where the Engineer Is King 10 Silicon Life on a Carbon Planet Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index About the Authors