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A range of practical workbooks and practice guides based on collaborative research with industry are available from the Institute for Manufacturing. For further details, and to order these publications, please click here for a faxback order form [36k] or on the link by each book . If you experience difficulties, please email ifm-enquiries eng.cam.ac.uk
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Technology intelligence:
Identifying threats and opportunities from new technologies.
Helps companies evaluate their systems for keeping abreast of the latest technology developments and to identify areas for improvement.
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£75
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ISBN 1-902546-51-2
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Assessing and improving product design capability
Explains how to assess product design capability through the use of a product and process audit.
£50
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ISBN 1-902546-14-8
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Managing product development collaborations
Offers practical guidance for the effective management of product development collaborations
£49.50
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ISBN 1-902546-15-6
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Winning decisions
translating business strategy into action plans.
Describes 'TAPS' - a structured decision making process that helps to translate business strategy into appropriate action plans.
Includes TAPS software CD
£149.00 (2003, Spiralbound, 106 pages)
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ISBN:1-902546-13-X
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Creating a winning business formula
Explains how to review current processes and procedures and develop and implement a new manufacturing strategy.
(Part of a series of three books)
(Includes a CD of resources)
CD update files
£29.95 (2002, Paperback, 116 pages)
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ISBN: 0-521-75029-6
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Getting the measure of your business
Provides simple but effective tools to develop a performance measurement system to match a company's manufacturing strategy.
(Includes a CD of resources)
CD update files
£29.95 (2002, Paperback, 143 pages)
Training courses available
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ISBN: 0-521-75031-8
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Competing through competences
Reveals an organisation's potential, its capabilities and limitations, in order to build a more sustainable competitive advantage.
(Includes a CD of resources)
CD update files
£29.95 (2002, Paperback, 179 pages)
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ISBN: 0-521-75030-X
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Making the Business Case for Technologies: A five step process guide
Convincing someone to invest in new technologies is one of the
most important tasks of technology management. Yet the actual
process of getting the buy-in decision is often inconclusive.
£75 (includes the accompanying CD 'T-Val'. (2009, Paperback, 26 pages)
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ISBN 978-1-902546-81-0
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T-Plan: the fast start to Technology Roadmapping
Planning your route to success
A step-by-step guide to applying technology and product roadmapping techniques in your organisation using the minimum of resources. (Includes CD of resources)
£149 (2001, Spiralbound, 124 pages)
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ISBN: 978-1-902546-09-4
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Good design practice for medical devices and equipment
Series of three workbooks to help medical designers tackle some of the less well understood aspects of medical device design, encompassing requirements capture, development framework and design verification.
£85 for set of three (2001/2002, Spiralbound, 72/78/80 pages)
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ISBN: 1-902546-08-3;
1-902546-10-5;
1-902546-12-1
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Make-or-Buy
A practical guide to industrial sourcing decisions
Offers a structured process, reviewing all relevant factors, to help the choice between producing 'in-house' and using an outside supplier.
£39 (2001, Spiralbound, 68 pages)
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ISBN: 1-902546-07-5
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Developing a make or buy strategy for manufacturing business
A structured approach to making 'make-or-buy' decisions. (IEE Manufacturing series 1)
£39 (1997, hard cover, 132 pages)
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ISBN: 0-85296-863-9
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Designing for low-volume production
Provides cost analysis techniques and design tactics for products manufactured in small batch sizes, to help you meet demanding cost targets or reduce manufacturing costs.
£39 (2001, Spiralbound, 88 pages)
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ISBN: 1-902546-06-7
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Manufacturing location decisions
Choosing the right location for international manufacturing facilities
Provides a systematic process to follow when choosing the location of international manufacturing sites, taking into account both strategic and operational issues.
£49.50 (2000, Spiralbound, 58 pages)
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ISBN: 1-902546-05-9
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Manufacturing mobility
A strategic guide to transferring manufacturing capability
A step-by-step guide to planning the international transfer of production technology, allowing potential problems to be identified early in the planning stages.
£49.50 (1999, Spiralbound, 50 pages)
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ISBN: 1-902546-02-4
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Fitness for transfer
Assessing manufacturing technologies for relocation
Deals with one of the most problematic stages in international manufacturing transfer - evaluating the ease or difficulty with which a particular technology may be moved to a new location.
£49.50 (1999, Spiralbound, 68 pages)
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ISBN: 1-902546-01-6
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Speeding new products to market
A practical workbook for achieving more successful new product development and introduction
Describes a simple approach, using specific tools such as staff and supply chain questionnaires, to reveal the strengths and weaknesses of current product development activities, so that improvements can be soundly based. (Data analysis software available)
£49.50 (£66.28 inc. software) (1998, Spiralbound, 110 pages)
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ISBN: 1-902546-00-8
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An introductory guide to industrial flow
...is aimed at the busy practising engineer who wishes to become familiar with the fundamentals of fluid mechanics as quickly and painlessly as possible. The essential ideas are presented in a clear and concise way, using straightforward mathematics, links with everyday observations, and some simple engineering calculations.
£15.00 (1996, hardbound, 230 pages)
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ISBN: 0-85298-983-0
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Reports
Company spending on design:
Exploratory survey of UK firms 2008
This report from the IfM's Design Management Group and Centre for Industry and Government provides a first ever evaluation of design spending in UK firms. The report describes a simple model for capturing design spend, and uses this model to generate an estimate of national spend. This work was jointly financed with the UK Design Council
£25 + post and packaging
More information: link to DMG scoreboard page (pdf available for download here)
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ISBN 987-1-902846-73-5
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International design scoreboard: initial indicators of international design capabilities
This report from the IfM’s Design Management Group and Centre for Industry and Government describes the generation of a framework for assessing international design capabilities. This framework is used to provide a first ranking of national design capabilities, using best available evidence.
£25 + post and packaging (92 pages)
More information: link to DMG scoreboard page (pdf available for download here)
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ISBN: 987-1-902846-74-2
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Understanding China's manufacturing value chain
This report from the IfM's Centre for International Manufacturing examines opprtunities for UK enterprises in China and includes elected case studies in white goods, TFT-Liquid crystal display and pharmaceutical sectors. £25.00 (41 pages)
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ISBN: 978-1-902546-69-8
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How to implement open innovation: lessons from studying large multinational companies
This report sets out to answer the question "I want to implement open innovation, where should I start and what should I do?" It provides an overview of existing approaches to OI and outlines how a company can start to implement a strategy to match the organisation's needs.
£25 printed, Paperback, 56 pages or download (free) a PDF file version.
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ISBN: 978-1-902546-75-9
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Making the most of production
This report from the IfM's Centre for Economics and Policy investigates the importance of production to companies and seeks to understand the long-term implications of moving production abroad or outsourcing production to other companies. £45.00 (17 pages)
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ISBN: 1-902546-29-6
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Well dressed? The present and future sustainability of clothing and textiles in the United Kingdom
This report produced by researchers in the IfM's Sustainable Manufacturing Group, sets out a vision of a sustainable clothes industry which at the same time would offer new opportunities to retailers and manufacturers.
Free + postage and packaging (84 pages).
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ISBN: 1-902546-29-6
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Making the Right Things in the Right Places
Describes a structured approach to understanding and exploiting a company's international 'manufacturing footprint' - the location of its plants around the globe, what their roles should be and how they interact with each other.
£25 + postage and packaging.
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ISBN: 978-1-902546-61-2
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Succeeding through Service Innovation
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ISBN: 978-1-902546-65-0
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Towards a sustainable industrial system,
with recommendations for education, research, industry and policy
This report calls for a collaborative effort by academics, teachers, industrialists and policy makers to create a sustainable, global industrial system. £25.00 (25 pages)
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ISBN: 978-1-902546-80-3
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Conference Proceedings
Tackling Industrial Complexity
the ideas that make a difference
Proceedings of the Manufacturing Complexity Network Conference 2002. Includes Mac/PC CD with all papers. Book stitched pages, soft cover, 555 pages. £45.00
Out of print.
NOTE: All the papers in this book can be accessed (free) from the conference website.
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ISBN: 1-902546-24-5
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Operations strategy and performance
Proceedings of the 1st European Operations Management Association Conference, June 1994,Cambridge. Book stitched pages, hard cover, 596 pages. £45.00
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ISBN: 0-9523575-0-X
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Global Value Chains
- capturing value in international manufacturing and supply networks
Proceedings of the 13th Cambridge International Manufacturing Symposium
Electronic publication available free at the symposium website
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