Offshoring manufacturing: Implications for engineering jobs and education: A survey and case study

Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing

Volumn 22, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 576-587

  Bidanda, Bopaya ^a   Arisoy, Ozlem ^a   Shuman, Larry J ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Manufacturing engineering; Offshoring; Outsourcing

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; LOGISTICS; OUTSOURCING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SURVEYING;

ELECTRONIC DIAGNOSTICS; MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING; OFFSHORING; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING;

EID: 33746796302     PISSN: 07365845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcim.2005.11.006     Document Type: Article

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