Like productivity in the 1970s and quality in the 1980s, flexibility will be the popular operations and production management theme in the 1990s. Contrary to much of what is being written, warns that flexibility is not necessarily achieved through computer integration. Enthusiasm to embrace...

Manufacturing and engineering depend heavily on computers for many low‐level operations, including design, resource planning and production scheduling. But only a few companies have implemented the sort of enterprise‐wide computerized planning/project management found in other industries....

Reviews the impact of computers on the business world. Suggests that organizational structure is now dictated by advances in the field and that information technology is changing the fundamental nature of industry. Discusses the future goals of the computer industry and the effects the expected...