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Table of Contents
Steps in Dissolution 401
Filing Legal Documents 402
Closing Operations 403
Selling Assets 403
Distributing Cash 404
Unit 11
Automating Manufacturing Systems
Green Manufacturing Link 406
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Automation and Manufacturing 407
Development of Automated Manufacturing 407
Academic Link 410
Components of an Automated System 410
Career Link 414
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Computers and Product Design 415
Components of a CAD System 416
Applications of CAD 417
Benefits and Functions of CAD 418
Engineering Design 418
Design Analysis 420
Design Presentation 420
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Computer Systems in Product Manufacturing 423
Machine and Process Control 424
Numerical Control 424
Classes of NC Machines 425
NC Programming Coordinates 426
NC Programming 426
Advances in NC 427
Industrial Robots 429
Applications of Robots 429
Fixed and Variable Sequence Robots 429
Programming a Robot 430
Robotic Movement 430
End Effectors 430
Flexible Manufacturing Systems 431
Management Information Systems 431
Computer-Aided Process Planning 433
Material Requirements Planning 433
Manufacturing Resource Planning II 433
Just-In-Time Manufacturing 433
Academic Link 434
Career Link 437