Map and Top: Advanced Manufacturing Communications

by John Dwyer and Adrian Ioannou

Bringing together information scattered among a wide variety of sources, this book is the first to explain in detail the current limits of manufacturing technology and the necessity of a standardized system of communication protocols. Examines alternative communications systems--which led General Motors to put forward the Manufacturing Automation Protocol (MAP), now supplemented by Boeing's Technical Office Protocol (TOP). Illustrates how to further develop MAP and describes the international standards committees that are central to MAP's future direction.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470209917
• ISBN13: 9780470209912
• Release Date: December 1987
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 191 Pages