Despite the low wages for skilled labor prevailing in developing countries, user firms in Argentina, but also in Brazil, Taiwan and South Korea, are willing to adopt numerically controlled machine tools for rerasons more linked to changes in the product mix to be machined, rather than to...

Modern information technology has opened up new possibilities of flexibilization and cost reduction in production. The author defines CIM - Computer Integrated Manufacturing - as a concept for the structuring of industrial enterprises. Manufacturing technologies demand a CIM concept which can be...