Computer Integrated Manufacturing

Part 1 Overview: introduction, Robert U. Ayres and Ehud Zuscovitch; CIM, economy and society - clues for empirical analysis, Kimio Uno. Part 2 Micro effects: labour productivity and CIM, Robert U. Ayres and Luigi Bodda; the enhancement of labour - robots in Japan, Shunsuke Mori; management, jobs and employment, Karl-H. Ebel; CIM and employment - labour substitutability, Robert U. Ayres and Shunsuke Mori; scientific, training and socioeconomic aspects of CIM in the USSR, Felix I. Peregudov and Iouri M. Solomentsev. Part 3 Meso effects - industrial structures: the economic impact of technological change, Rumen Dobrinsky and Shunichi Furukawa; input-output structural changes and CIM, Shunichi Furukawa; an econometric analysis of technological change in Japan, the USA and the FRG, Mitsuo Yamada; impact of CIM on the economy, Lucja Tomaszewicz et al; occupation-by-sector matrices, Hans-Ulrich Brautzsch; automation-based technologies in the USSR, Oleg Adamovic et al. Part 4 Macro and international effects: macroanalysis of the economic impact of CIM - a global econometric model, Rumen Dobrinsky; macroeconomic impact of structural changes in the 1990s - consequences for CIM, Robert Boyer; switching from Fordism to CIM - a system dynamics model, Peter Fleissner and Wolfgang Polt; CIM impacts on logistics - macroeconomic aspects, Pavel Dimitrov; flexible automation in less developed countries, Pentti Vuorinen; computer integrated manufacturing in a world of regions, Duane Butcher.