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The effect of information technology on manufacturing*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2009

I. Aleksander
I. Aleksander
Affiliation:
Kobler Unit for the Management of Information Technology, Dept. of Computing, Imperial College of Science & Technology, 180 Queen's Gate, London SW7 2BZ (U.K.)
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Summary

The major thrust of technological development is the reduction of the demands made by I.T. equipment on its users. The economic pressures which underpin such developments are based on 2 principles: the continuing fall of the cost of processing power (but particularly storage) and the market edge of simple as opposed to complex systems.

The techniques which can no longer be disregarded include voice and vision communication which frees the users' hands from the prison of the keyboard: also the logical power of IT equipment will not only extend excellence of rigorous reasoning, but also the type of person to person reasoning which takes the human factor into account.

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Robotica , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , January 1985, pp. 27 - 30
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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