NGM — Next Generation Manufacturing, A Framework for Action (USA Project)

Abstract

The Next-Generation Manufacturing Project was initiated in 1995 to develop a framework for action that U.S. manufacturers, individually and collectively, can use as a guide to chart a course for success in an increasingly complex and competitive global business environment. Individuals from more than 100 companies, industry associations, government agencies, and academic institutions have worked together to develop a broadly accepted framework for next-generation manufacturing enterprises. They identified key competitive drivers of the next-generation environment; defined attributes and imperatives required to respond to these drivers; and developed recommendations for actions that industry, government, and academia can take to help American manufacturers thrive in the intensely competitive and dynamic global markets of the 21st Century.