CAD/CAM : a challenge and opportunity for Canadian industry / J. Scrimgeour, Consultant, Technology Branch.: Id31-89/1981E-PDF

"As a result of advances in computer technology, the cost of computation is decreasing approximately ten-fold per decade. In the manufacturing industries, this is fostering the development of widespread changes in design and manufacturing techniques, referred to as Computer Aided Design and Computer Aided Manufacturing, or CAD/CAM, at an unprecedented rate. This presents both a challenge and an opportunity for manufacturing companies and industrialized countries who wish to maintain or advance their relative positions as suppliers of manufactured goods of virtually all kinds"--Abstract.

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Publication information
Department/Agency Canada. Department of Industry, Trade and Commerce. Technology Branch.
Title CAD/CAM : a challenge and opportunity for Canadian industry / J. Scrimgeour, Consultant, Technology Branch.
Variant title Challenge and opportunity for Canadian industry
Publication type Monograph
Language [English]
Format Electronic
Electronic document
Note(s) Title from cover.
Digitized edition from print [produced by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada].
"95th Congress - Engineering Institute of Canada and Annual Meeting - Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, May 4-6, 1981, Hamilton, Ontario."
Includes bibliographical references.
Publishing information Ottawa : Department of Industry, Trade and Commerce, 1981.
Author / Contributor Scrimgeour, J. (Jack)author.
Description 1 online resource (7 pages, 33 unnumbered pages) : graphs
Catalogue number
  • Id31-89/1981E-PDF
Subject terms Manufacturing industry
Technological innovation
Computer systems
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