Technology deployment and assimilation

Edward H. Kwiatkowski

doi:10.1117/12.170617

7 March 1994 Technology deployment and assimilation

Edward H. Kwiatkowski

Proceedings Volume 2102, Coupling Technology to National Need; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.170617
Event: Coupling Technology to National Need, 1993, Albuquerque, NM, United States

Abstract

Cleveland, with its surrounding industrial region, historically has been one of the great manufacturing centers in America. From the mid-19th Century's fledgling steel industry to today's sophisticated durable goods manufacturing base, the economic strength of Northern Ohio has been built on manufacturing. But success has not been easily won, especially in recent years. In the late '70s and early '80s regional manufacturing companies, mainly small and medium sized, faced overwhelming adversity: foreign competition, lack of available capital, management-labor conflicts, and a serious recession -- all of which resulted in a loss of nearly one-quarter of the area's manufacturing jobs. It was under these conditions that in 1984 an organized group of area business and civic leaders, known as Cleveland Tomorrow, established the Cleveland Advanced Manufacturing Program (CAMP). CAMP's mandate: To unify industrial, government, and university resources in a mutual effort to improve manufacturing through advanced technology.

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Edward H. Kwiatkowski "Technology deployment and assimilation", Proc. SPIE 2102, Coupling Technology to National Need, (7 March 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.170617

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