Investment Decisions in Advanced Manufacturing Technology: A Fuzzy Set Theory Approach

by David Dugdale, Peter Taylor, Magdy G. Abdel-Kader

The early chapters of this book review the existing AMT (Advanced Manufacturing Technologies) decision-making literature. This section of the book concludes that AMT decisions can be handicapped by over-emphasis on short-term financial calculation. A number of theoretical models have been suggested which combine both financial and strategic analysis. These are reviewed, and it is concluded that these models are not grounded in practice and often provide...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1840145617
• ISBN13: 9781840145618
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 8.9"