Purpose: This paper aims to demonstrate how science and engineering graduates can be recruited and trained to Masters level in precision engineering as an aid to reducing the skills shortage of mechanical engineers in UK industry. Design/methodology/approach: The paper describes a partnership between three UK academic institutions and industry,…

This article describes the Applied Engineering Technology (AET) Career and Educational Pathways Program, which helps local manufacturers find quality workers. The program features 32 high schools, three community colleges, and 10 four-year institutions offering an integrated regional system of applied engineering education. The goal is to enroll…

The results of a comparative study of 30 manufacturing firms in India indicated that the most effective organizations tended to choose a unidimensional strategy of administrative control. This strategy consisted of the use of formalized procedures to control decentralized decision-making with respect to both human and material resources. (Author)

Attempts to show the feasibility of an energy conservation policy based on a greatly improved efficiency of use of energy. Considers efficiency in the industrial, residential, commercial, and transporation sectors. (GS)

This edition of the American Chemical Society laboratory guide is designed to assist the buyers of laboratory supplies and services. The guide contains 40,000 entries and 1,850 product headings presented within these listings: products and services advertised; main dealer location and their branch offices in the southern, northeastern, midwestern,…

The basic automobile design has persisted for fifty years with innovations only in production and marketing. Complex interrelationships among steel, oil, rubber, road building, and automobile industries perpetuate the "modern Model T's." Efforts to alter design to meet safety and environmental standards face tremendous resistance from a…

Using transition-rate analysis for a sample of 671 large U.S. manufacturing firms during 1978-1980, this paper explores the nature and relationship of the chief executive officer (CEO) and chair of the board of directors positions. One analysis examines CEO and board chair turnover; the other examines consolidations and separations. Includes 46…

The purpose of this paper is to (1) provide a further test of the product-profit cycle hypothesis for high-tech manufacturing; (2) determine whether high and low tech manufacturers provide different employment opportunities for nonmetropolitan communities; and (3) determine whether the educational requirements within occupational categories differ…

Outlines traditional and nontraditional information services developed at a large, highly diversified firm to exploit power and value of online databases and support goals of the Independent Searching Program. Highlights include awareness, set-up and vendor selection; training and continuing support; local database building; electronic search…

A comparative study of Australian industrial workers in four factories examined whether the immediate work context or social context explains the variation in orientations toward work. The analysis reveals remarkable similarities despite differences in employer, technology, and organizational structure, and in the demographic and labor force…

Examines how authors have looked at the future and probes the limits of forecasting. Looks at several futurists' views on the manufacturing industry and emerging occupations. (SK)

Examines changes in employment, unemployment, and hours of work in manufacturing, with particular focus on the five major metal-using and producing industries which are particularly sensitive to economic cycles. (SK)

Increasing information suggests school buses are defective at the manufacturing level. (Reprinted from The Financial Post, Feb. 24, 1973.) (Author)

Employment and hours movements are compared with patterns in two preceding recessions. (Editor)