Title: A comparison of AMT strategies in the USA, South Africa and Germany

Authors: Stuart Orr

Addresses: Faculty of Business and Law, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria 3217, Australia

Abstract: This paper presents a comparison of the findings of three surveys of AMT adoption, independently carried out in the USA, South Africa and Germany. It was found that in both South Africa and Germany the greatest number of respondents claimed that their ideas for AMT implementations came from the Production Department, whilst the greatest number of US respondents identified the Engineering Department. The US respondents involved greater numbers of levels of management and functional areas in the planning process and utilised more financial evaluation techniques in assessment. At the time, the USA was rated as the most competitive industrialised nation and the best performing industrialised nation with regard to technology management.

Keywords: AMT; technology strategy; technology analysis; advanced manufacturing technology.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMTM.2002.002517

International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management, 2002 Vol.4 No.6, pp.441-454

Published online: 19 Jul 2003 *

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