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Article #716Re: The Automated Factory Handbook
From: John Nagle
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 1990 03:43
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 1990 03:43
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hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath) writes:
>TAB Professional and Reference Books is trying to sell me something called
>_The Automated Factory Handbook, Technology and Management_, by David I.
>Cleland and Bopaya Bidanda (832 pages, 250 illustrations, $69.95
>hardcover).
In general, all TAB books are lousy. They seem consistently to
contain vast amounts of filler material and very little meat. They
usually read as if someone collected whatever information was easily
available on the subject and reworked it just enough to avoid
plagarism problems.
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