NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR
MANUFACTURING MANAGEMENT
Library
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Papers and publications
Most of these papers, those by the Smartlink Fellows, are available in the Library section of this website. A few others are links to documents on the Worldwide Web. The files are in various formats, including RTF, PDF, and Powerpoint. To read them, you may need to download additional software, such as the Powerpoint Viewer, Real Player, and Adobe Acrobat. Instructions are given here
Many of the larger presentations are available on Smartlink CD-ROMs. See the range of CD-ROMs planned and so far available.
Our main topics
These are the main topics covered by Smartlink. Each has its own separate page, with links to manuals, presentations, and videos and papers produced by Smartlink Fellows over the last few years, and links to relevant websites. There is some deliberate overlap between pages: when a link is relevant to several pages, it is included in both.
Collaboration: clustering, networks, and alliances
Innovation and knowledge management
Miscellaneous
Introduction to the Symphony Project
The International Manufacturing Leaders' Forum 2002: report by Bob Brown
Presentation by Arrie van Niekerk, speaker for May 2002: Theory of Constraints (PDF file, 32 pages - requires Acrobat Reader)
Smartlink: A Collaborative National Initiative - presented at The National Manufacturing Week Conference in Sydney, by Howard Harris, May 2002
Newsletters
Management Alert: the Smartlink newsletter
Our newsletter, Management Alert is produced when we have something to announce, rather than on a fixed schedule.
Contact us to subscribe to the newsletter, and receive it by email. We are using a Listserv system, so that subscribers can supply feedback.
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Other newsletters
As well as our own occasional newsletter, various other online manufacturing-related newsletters are published in Australia. See this page (July 2003).
The Centre for Advanced Manufacturing Research at the University of South Australia produces a quarterly Intelligent Manufacturing Newsletter, which can be read online, or subscribed to.
QMI Solutions has a monthly newsletter on manufacturing, that anybody can subscribe to.
Books on manufacturing management
The top 25 best sellers on manufacturing from Amazon Books in the US.