Books in the National Association of Manufacturers series

During the 1990s, an ambitious three-year research program identified the steps manufacturing companies must take to become globally competitive. The prestigious Next Generation Manufacturing (NGM) Project combined the insights and perspectives of business and academia's most astute thinkers.

This book offers a proven method for developing R&D partnerships within industry and between major competitors. The authors describe the methods, techniques, and new metrics for ramping up and assessing collaborative R&D relationships.

Visible pull is a revolutionary new method of time management and process improvement that enables manufacturing stations to make better use of their active time. With visible pull, stations act in concert with one another and enable the company to allocate resources properly, build a culture of teamwork, and link time-on-line to business goals.

Authoritative, comprehensive, accessible-the definitive guide to a new approach in environmental policy Emissions Trading: Environmental Policy's New Approach presents the work of an outstanding group of contributors on the successes and limitations of this new and exciting incentive-based tool for reducing environmental pollutants.