A comprehensive bibliography on justification of advanced manufacturing systems

Organizations use a variety of approaches in justifying their investments in new processes and technologies. This paper provides a comprehensive bibliography on the techniques and their rationale in the acquisition and justification of advanced manufacturing systems. The paper cites 231 articles from a variety of published sources. The list contains published research mainly from 1990 to 2001 and a selected published work prior to 1990. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.