The Decline of the U.S. Machine-Tool Industry and Prospects for Its Sustainable Recovery: Appendices

by David Finegold, United States Office of Science & Techno, Critical Technologies Institute Rand Co

This volume consists of the appendices to the machine-tool study main report, MR-479/1. Among the appendices are detailed studies of the Japanese, German, and Italian machine-tool industries; an assessment of the key current and future technologies for the machine-tool industry; and separate case studies of two key technology computer numerical control and transfer lines.

250 pages, Paperback

First published May 17, 1995

About the author

Dr. David Finegold, the 19th President of Chatham University, has over 30 years of experience in higher education as a researcher, author, professor, academic dean, senior vice president and chief academic officer. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard in 1985, and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, from which he received his DPhil in Politics in 1992.