Venkatesh, V. C. (2007). Precision Engineering. New York: Tata McGraw-Hill.
The idea of precision engineering is outlined in the book due to the concepts of multi-dimensional approach when talking about the industrial growth in post-industrial society. In this respect, special attention is grabbed in the book to precision machinery, as the optimal way for making a high-technological society perform with more improvements. The author states that “precision engineering concerns the creation of high-precision machine tools, and this involves their design, fabrication and measurement” (2). The Japanese example and authors from Japan are widely referenced in the book with newly updated information according to current technological achievements. High-precision machinery correlates the search of an amateur in objectives for a man related to this sphere of activities.
The advantages of the book are in its modern outlook on the development in the precision machinery industry. The idea of detailed analysis of main approaches and attitudes is also enclosed in the body of the research. The limitations consider the one-sided approach to the problem using mostly the Japanese and Chinese experience. Moreover, the research does not include the parallels with other related industries and approaches in the technological domain. However, the research maintained in the book is full in its theoretical data appropriate for a would-be engineer.
Schmitz, H. & Cassiolato, J. E. (1992). Hi-tech for industrial development: lessons from the Brazilian experience in electronics and automation. London: Routledge.
This study is based straightforwardly on the Brazilian experience as for precision machinery. The authors evaluate the idea of current experience in the dimension of engineering used in its technologically new approach. The market approach is introduced in the book with current data as of sales of precision machinery and their use in terms of industrial innovations and high-tech estimation.
The computerization era is underlined in the research to face new approaches when designing the model of innovations being approved throughout the main places for direct use. In other words, the shift of time epochs due to new techniques and means for improvement of the industry should be preceded by the readiness of the chief executives within entertainment. On the example of some firms, authors relate their discussion to unsold machinery: “production was stopped and the firm was forced to diversify to high-precision machining services and restoring old-machinery” (232).
The advantage of the paper is in its diversified outlook on experiences within main producers of precision machinery in the world based, however, on the Brazilian methods. The authors are apt to combine previous studies with current challenges. The limitation is in the relatively old data being several times improved until now.
Stern, R. M. (2003). Japan’s economic recovery: commercial policy, monetary policy, and corporate governance. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
The book is interesting and applicable for the researchers of the so-called Japanese wonder. In this respect, the readings of economic growth are presupposed with the gradual adaptation of the Japanese economy toward new and rather cruel challenges in the world arena. The collected database presupposes the etalon for making precision machinery more improved and applicable toward the quality of the produced goods. In this respect, the idea of making high-precision machines with more approach to customers’ requirements of a particular time is illustrated as the main ability which was shown by Japanese producers.
Thus, the import-export ratio for precision machinery in Japan is shown in the research at a level of 10.6% to 18.7% (87). According to this research, it is possible to make assumptions as to the target-planned character of the precision machinery industry in its electronically-related approach. Overall the research is reckoned with the implementation of the Japanese management model for making import-export ratio for precision machinery without any effects on the national economy.
The strong side of the book is in its wide examination of the Japanese pros and cons in the industrial dimension. The disadvantage of the book is related to its more glimpses at the previous rather old experience.
Karan, P. P. (2005). Japan in the 21st century: environment, economy, and society. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky.
The Japanese phenomenon in industrial renovations is observed in the book in terms of the current policy of the Japanese government and its approach in relations with other countries of the world. The Tokyo region where the most concentration of industrial entertainment per capita is highlighted in comparison with other prefectures, namely: Kanagawa, Chiba, Ibaraki, Tochigi, and Gumma (328).
The book leads to the current plans of the Japanese government in making precision machinery still one of the most viable and important spheres of industrial development. Since the 1960s when the precision machinery was first maintained and implemented in domains of the national trend for making a post-war situation of destabilization improved with competitive techniques and improvement in contrast to other countries involved in the process of industrialization. The elaboration of the precision machinery in the past is related in the research to the perspectives in the short and the long run. Here stays the main approach of making ultra-new appliances in addition to current checked technologies of production. Furthermore, it is the advantageous side of the research. The weakness of the research touches upon the lack of comparative material as of the same development of engineering in Europe.
Medeiros, E. S. (2007). Reluctant restraint: the evolution of China’s nonproliferation policies and practices, 1980-2004. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
The research provided in the book discovers the political and economic standards in China for making the growth of the economy not only of the internal but as of the external character. In this respect, the precision machinery and its use are highly marked due to the national program for militarization and promotion of import-export relations with partner countries. This approach is outlined in several examples of companies representing Chinese interests in the world arena. The precision machinery is straightforwardly concerned in the book with the production of the missiles. In this case, the example of the China Precision Machinery Import-Export Corporation is outlined as most apparent for the Chinese prospects as of this field of industry. Here the book depicts the methods with which the government is intended to control the arms import and export of missiles.
The study is significant for its detailed analysis of the current Chinese program for militarization and the place of precision machinery in it. The idea of Chinese wonder is described in the comparative suppositions with other countries. The limitations are based on the numerous abbreviations and the lack of their interpretation in some points, in particular. However, the research makes emphasis on putting a would-be engineer into the domain of Chinese machinery success in the world.
Harnoy, A. (2003). Bearing design in machinery: engineering tribology and lubrication: Mechanical engineering. Vol. 147. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
The book relates all its information as for precision machinery in terms of rolling-element bearings. Here stands a bright idea for making the machinery more applied toward the contemporary requirements of the machinery industry. In this respect, precision machinery plays a major role in making advantages for rolling-element bearings. Due to ultrahigh-precision machinery the reliable consensus toward the use of appropriate tools in making machines and buildings is supposed with the precision approach: “It is possible to eliminate the clearance and even to prestress the bearings” (308).
Thus, the material in the book is grounded on the rational approach of making more glimpses at the significance and perspectives of innovations provided by the precision machinery for the production of bearings. The research helps a reader to come up with the reliance of it toward current competitive practice in the field of machinery. In its feature it there is a great motivational element for a prospective engineer in the sphere of precision machinery.
Hence, the advantage of the research is incorporated in its particular survey on the rolling-element bearings in terms of precision machinery, as the dimension and tool with which the industrial process can be successful. The weakness is illuminated in the lack of material with facts sequence.
Schaede, U. (2000). Cooperative capitalism: self-regulation, trade associations, and the antimonopoly law in Japan. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
The significance of funding the innovative approaches in the sphere of technologies is outlined in the book with a particular prospective outlook on the current tendency and its credibility for large business structures. Nevertheless, the capitalistic trend copes with the cooperation in the field of mutual concernment of business and governments. In this respect precision machinery is outlined as one of the main constituents for the technology-driven process in the positive development of the world economies.
The research represents also a lot of proper assumptions of how to make an increase of machinery more applied in the capitalistic relations considered with informational systems and high technologies. Essential arguments are performed in applicable charts and diagrams so that to make the procedure of current in contrast with the previous approach more convenient and reliable. Precision machinery is examined and outlined in the book, as “very heterogeneous due to brand, fashion, features, design, etc” (201).
The advantage of the book and the research embodied in it is in the convenient shaping of it with appropriate information. Factual as well as argumentative material is performed with a detailed survey on industrial stability. The disadvantage of the book is in its relevantly old, because of rather more achievements known in the world in this field of activities.
Alvstam, C. G. & Schamp, E. W. (2005). Linking industries across the world: processes of global networking: The dynamics of economic space. Williston, VT: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
The era of computerization and technological progress according to precision machinery has many things in common. Thus, the leading role of computers and their appropriate use for the automatization process is reliable when the precision machinery gains profits for the industrial growth in other related spheres, such as electronics, molding, power management, etc. The study occupies the domain of direct use of high technologies for the industrial overall improvements. The use and practical implementation of the technological resources based on the machinery significance and its evaluation for perpetually growing high-tech industry are described on the examples of such well-known companies as Foxcom Electronics Group, Delta Electronics, ASUS, ACER Peripherals, and others (179).
The whole concernment in precision machinery is also implied into the sphere of IT technologies in their technical execution and functioning. The reports provided in the book show difference in American and Asian companies producing computing appliances. The urge for more investigation in the domain of precision machinery is preferable for today’s economic growth in the field of scientific and technological innovations.
The advantageous side of the book is in its contemporary relation toward current latest reports as of machinery and technological achievements. The limitation is supposed with the inaccurate provision of the material in some places.