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The influencing “megatrends”, the experiences of the actual financial crisis and opportunities of new technologies require a radical change of paradigms from economic orientation towards sustainable development in all sectors of manufacturing in the next decades. The objectives of manufacturers change from cost and short profits to competition and sustainability.
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Westkämper, E. (2014). The Objectives of Manufacturing Development. In: Towards the Re-Industrialization of Europe. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38502-5_5
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