Via this network, suppliers have designed and preassembled the entire new 777 jet airliner. These specialized suppliers are connected to one another by an information network with seven mainframe computers and 2,800 workstations. Most of the company’s production is now being ”outsourced” to suppliers all over the world. One manufacturer, Boeing Corporation, for example, has used networking technologies to reduce costs, expedite production and improve product quality. Remote manufacturing can also be used in textile and clothing production, transmitting design of fabrics and patterns for garments, possibly directly to the machines that print or weave the design and cut the fabric. Aeroplanes, computer components, machinery, vehicles and appliances can be manufactured to order at remote sites. The future intranets and extranets will transmit detailed speciﬁcations, blueprints, 3-D images and machine tool settings so that remote manufacturing facilities equipped with the computer-assisted design and manufacturing tools and machinery will produce the parts or products exactly to speciﬁcation.

FAO Manufacturing Remote manufacturing can be used The growth of globalization presents challenges to developing country in a number of industries to improve industries, but also opportunities to be partners and suppliers in ever more production efﬁciency. A recent development is an information centre on the in Action Internet dedicated to the newly created Asia Paciﬁc Training Institutes in Tourism network which can be found at. 66 /280 0775 can advise the user on calculating E-mail: telecommunications & business 17

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