Selection and Evaluation of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies

I. Innovation Issues.- 1. Some Needed Advances in the Evaluation of Technological Advances.- 2. An Orienting Theory for Implementing Advanced Manufacturing Technologies.- 3. Industrial Adoption and Use of Programmable Controllers.- 4. The Intra-Firm Diffusion of Cadcam in the U.K. Mechanical Engineering Industry.- II. Methods and Applications.- 5. A Synthesis of Methods for Evaluating Interrelated Investment Projects.- 6. A Strategic Evaluation Methodology for Manufacturing Technologies.- 7. The Dante Model: Dynamic Appraisal of Network Technologies and Equipment.- 8. The Economic Evaluation of Advanced Manufacturing Technology.- III. Performance Measurement.- 9. Performance Measurement and Product Costing in the AMT Environment: A Literature Review.- 10. Cost Control and Performance Measurement: A Problem Diagnosis and Some Recommendations for the New Manufacturing Environment.- 11. Management Accounting and the Adoption of Flexible Automation.- 12. Managing the Flexibility of Flexible Manufacturing Systems for Competitive Edge.- 13. On an Economic Measure of Super-Flexibility in an Uncertain Environment.- List of Referees.