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Part 1 New visions of manufacturing: competing through manufacturing;the productivity paradox; the service factory; the emerging theory ofmanufacturing; making mass customization work. Part 2 Improvingcompetitiveness through investments in technology and facilities: thefocused factory; post-industrial manufacturing; manufacturing offshoreis bad business. Part 3 Improving competitiveness through systems andprocedures: why some factories are more productive than others; qualityon the line; robust quality; made in USA - a renaissance in quality;getting control of just-in-time; making supply meet demand in anuncertain world. Part 4 Creating the new manufacturing organization:manufacturing's crisis - new technologies, obsolete organizations; thehidden factory; yesterdays accounting undermines production; the humancosts of manufacturing reform. Part 5 Strategic manufacturing:competing through superior capabilties - strategic planning-forward inreverse?; beyond world-class - the new manufacturing strategy.