Computer Integrated Manufacturing: Economic and social impacts

by Robert U. Ayres, W. Haywood, R. Dobrinsky

CIM (computer integrated manufacturing) is an acronym that has become fairly well known in recent years in manufacturing and related engineering circles. The purpose of the CIM Project at IIASA is to close the widening gap between the pace of technological, economic, and social events, on the one hand, and the progress of understanding those events, on the other.

532 pages, Hardcover

First published October 31, 1991

About the author

Robert U Ayres is an American physicist and economist who went to the University of Chicago hoping to study with Fermi, but wrote his doctoral thesis at King’s College London. He has written or co-authored some twenty books and two hundred scholarly papers in a long career in the United States and Europe. He is an emeritus professor based in Paris. He has had a 40-year interest in the Shakespeare authorship.