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Modern Design and Manufacturing 1.The Computer and Manufacturing The computer is bringing manufacturing into the Information Age. This new tool, long a familiar one in business and management operations, is moving into the factory, and its advent is changing manufacturing as certainly as the steam engine changed it 100 years ago. The basic metalworking processes are not likely to change fundamentally, but their organization and control definitely will Inone respect, manufacturing could be said to be coming full circle. The fist manufacturing was a cottage industry: the designer was also the ma