Textile Werkstoffe bergen ein extrem vielfaltiges Potenzial an Eigenschaften. Daher sind sie haufig Trager und Treiber fur innovative, ressourceneffiziente Leichtbau- und High-Tech-Anwendungen. Experten der Textiltechnik vermitteln in dem Band Grundlagen- und Spezialwissen uber die Textil- und Konfektionstechnik, uber die Textilchemie sowie uber die Leistungsfahigkeit textiler Werkstoffe. Leser erfahren, welche Moglichkeiten es gibt, textile Strukturen einzusetzen, etwa im Composite, im Bauwesen, in der Sicherheits- oder Membrantechnik."

An insider reveals what can--and does--go wrong when companies shift production to China

In this entertaining behind-the-scenes account, Paul Midler tells us all that is wrong with our effort to shift manufacturing to China. Now updated and expanded, "Poorly Made in China" reveals industry secrets, including the dangerous practice of quality fade--the deliberate and secret habit of Chinese manufacturers to widen profit margins through the reduction of quality inputs. U.S. importers don't stand a chance, Midler explains, against savvy Chinese suppliers who feel they have little to lose by placing consumer safety at risk for the sake of greater profit. This is a lively and impassioned personal account, a collection of true stories, told by an American who has worked in the country for close to two decades. "Poorly Made in China "touches on a number of issues that affect us all.

Flexibility, specialization, and niche marketing are buzzwords in the business literature these days, yet few realize that it was these elements that helped the United States first emerge as a global manufacturing leader between the Civil War and World War I. The huge mass production-based businesses--steel, oil, and autos--have long been given sole credit for this emergence. In "Endless Novelty," Philip Scranton boldly recasts the history of this vital episode in the development of American business, known as the nation's second industrial revolution, by considering the crucial impact of trades featuring specialty, not standardized, production. Scranton takes us on a grand tour through American specialty firms and districts, where, for example, we meet printers and jewelry makers in New York and Providence, furniture builders in Grand Rapids, and tool specialists in Cincinnati. Throughout he highlights the benevolent as well as the strained relationships between workers and proprietors, the lively interactions among entrepreneurs and city leaders, and the personal achievements of industrial engineers like Frederic W. Taylor.

Scranton shows that in sectors producing goods such as furniture, jewelry, machine tools, and electrical equipment, firms made goods to order or in batches, and industrial districts and networks flourished, creating millions of jobs. These enterprises relied on flexibility, skilled labor, close interactions with clients, suppliers, and rivals, and opportunistic pricing to generate profit streams. They built interfirm alliances to manage markets and fashioned specialized institutions--trade schools, industrial banks, labor bureaus, and sales consortia. In creating regional synergies and economies of scope and diversity, the approaches of these industrial firms represent the inverse of mass production.

Challenging views of company organization that have come to dominate the business world in the United States, "Endless Novelty" will appeal to historians, business leaders, and to anyone curious about the structure of American industry.

Beautiful. Willful. Charming. Blunt. Grace Coddington's extraordinary talent and fierce dedication to her work as creative director of "Vogue" have made her an international icon. Known through much of her career only to those behind the scenes, she might have remained fashion's best-kept secret were it not for "The September Issue, " the acclaimed 2009 documentary that turned publicity-averse Grace into a sudden, reluctant celebrity. Grace's palpable engagement with her work brought a rare insight into the passion that produces many of the magazine's most memorable shoots.
With the witty, forthright voice that has endeared her to her colleagues and peers for more than forty years, Grace now creatively directs the reader through the storied narrative of her life so far. Evoking the time when models had to tote their own bags and props to shoots, Grace describes her early career as a model, working with such world-class photographers as David Bailey and Norman Parkinson, before she stepped behind the camera to become a fashion editor at British "Vogue" in the late 1960s. Here she began creating the fantasy "travelogues" that would become her trademark. In 1988 she joined American "Vogue, " where her breathtakingly romantic and imaginative fashion features, a sampling of which appear in this book, have become instant classics.
Delightfully underscored by Grace's pen-and-ink illustrations, "Grace" will introduce readers to the colorful designers, hairstylists, makeup artists, photographers, models, and celebrities with whom Grace has created her signature images. Grace reveals her private world with equal candor--the car accident that almost derailed her modeling career, her two marriages, the untimely death of her sister, Rosemary, her friendship with "Harper's Bazaar" editor-in-chief Liz Tilberis, and her thirty-year romance with Didier Malige. Finally, Grace describes her abiding relationship with Anna Wintour, and the evolving mastery by which she has come to define the height of fashion.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY "FINANCIAL TIMES
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"If Wintour is the Pope . . . Coddington is Michelangelo, trying to paint a fresh version of the Sistine Chapel twelve times a year."--"Time"

This step-by-step introduction to grading combines the theory of pattern grading with its practical applications. After presenting the x, y orientation to familiarize readers with the concepts of computer grading and using the Cartesian graph, the text takes a holistic approach, integrating anthropometry, size specifications, and grade guides into the grading process for women's garments with emphasis on maintaining fit and style sense. New to this Edition: - Expanded discussion of computer grading technology including Optitex, Gerber, Lectra, and Tukatech software - 20% new end-of-chapter exercises - Includes more than 200 illustrations and 85 tables for grade rules, measurement charts and garment specifications - Added discussion on grading from specifications and development of tolerances - Instructor's Guide and Test Bank provide answers to exercises, completed and blank grade rule tables, grade charts for different base sizes and projects for further research Concepts of Pattern Grading STUDIO: - Study smarter with self-quizzes featuring scored results and personalized study tips - Review concepts with flashcards of terms and definitions - Practice your skills with extra exercises

Das Buch erlautert die Technologien zum Fugen und zur Oberflachenveredlung von textilen Materialien, fur die Anwendung in der Industrie und der Forschung. Fur wichtige Verfahren wie Nahen, Sticken, Kleben, Beschichten, Schweissen, Schrauben und Nieten, Klettverschluss und gesteckte oder gewebte Nahtverbindungen werden die technologischen Grundlagen, Eigenschaften und Anwendungen beschrieben. Auf der Grundlage der Fuge- und Oberflachentechnologien werden Erlauterungen gegeben zu den Anforderungen, die zur Erzielung gewunschter Produktanforderungen notwendig sind.

Industrielle Anwendungen liegen im Automobilbau, in der Luft- und Raumfahrt, im textilen Bauen, in der Bekleidungsindustrie, bei Schutz- und Sicherheitsanwendungen, aber auch in der Medizin, im Freizeitbereich und in der Papierindustrie kommen die Verfahren zum Einsatz. Das Buch beschreibt auch Methoden zur industriellen Verfahrensbewertung, Innovation und Ideenfindung sowie zur Kostenkalkulation vor Durchfuhrung der Projekte.

Das Buch richtet sich an Experten in der Industrie, aber auch Lernende und Lehrende in der gewerblichen Ausbildung und Hochschulausbildung finden in dem Nachschlagewerk Hinweise zur Beurteilung geeigneter Fuge- und Oberflachenverfahren, zur Herstellung anspruchvoller Produkte bei technischen Textilien, Medizintextilien, Smart Textiles und Bekleidungstextilien sowie fur High-Tech-Anwendungen."

The Breakthrough Program for Increasing Quality, Shortening Cycle Times, and Creating Shareholder Value In Every Area of Your Organization

Time and quality are the two most important metrics in improving any companys production and profit performance. Lean Six Sigma explains how to impact your companys performance in each, by combining the strength of todays two most important initiatives­­Lean Production and Six Sigma­­into one integrated program.

The first book to provide a step-by-step roadmap for profiting from the best elements of Lean and Six Sigma, this breakthrough volume will show you how to:

• Achieve major cost and lead time reductions this year
  
• Compress order-to-delivery cycle times
  
• Battle process variation and waste throughout your organization
  

Separately, Lean Production and Six Sigma have changed the face of the manufacturing business. Together, they become an unprecedented tool for improving product and process quality, production efficiency, and across-the-board profitability. Lean Six Sigma introduces you to todays most dynamic program for streamlining the performance of both your production department and your back office, and providing you with the cost reduction and quality improvements you need to stay one step ahead of your competitors.

Lean Six Sigma shows how Lean and Six Sigma methods complement and reinforce each other. If also provides a detailed roadmap of implementation so you can start seeing significant returns in less than a year.--­­From the Preface

Businesses fundamentally exist to provide returns to their stakeholders. Lean Six Sigma outlines a program for combining the synergies of these two initiatives to provide your organization with greater speed, less process variation, and more bottom-line impact than ever before.

A hands-on guidebook for integrating the production efficiencies of the Lean Enterprise with the cost and quality tools of Six Sigma, this breakthrough book features detailed insights on:

• The Lean Six Sigma Value Proposition­­How combining Lean and Six Sigma provides unmatched potential for improving shareholder value
  
• The Lean Six Sigma Implementation Process­­How to prepare your organization for a seamless incorporation of Lean Six Sigma tools and techniques
  
• Leveraging Lean Six Sigma­­Strategies for extending Lean Six Sigmas reach within and beyond your corporate walls
  

Variation is evil.--­­Jack Welch

Six Sigma was the zero-variation quality lynchpin around which Jack Welch transformed GE into one of the worlds most efficient­­and valuable­­corporations. Lean Production helped Toyota cut waste, slash costs, and substantially improve resource utilization and cycle times.

Yet, as both would admit, there was still room for improvement.

Lean Six Sigma takes you to the next level of improvement, one that for the first time unites product and process excellence with the goal of enhancing shareholder value creation. Providing insights into the application of Lean Six Sigma to both the manufacturing processes and the less-data-rich service and transactional processes, it promises to revolutionize the performance efficiencies in virtually every area of your organization­­as it positively and dramatically impacts your shareholder value.

Japan was the first major non-western nation to take on board the Western technological and organizational advances of the century after the fist industrial revolution. It subsequently proved fully able to exploit and contribute to the broad, sustained technological advances that began in the twentieth century, as science became harnessed to technology. Japan's economic development remains a model for many technologically less advanced countries which have not yet mastered modern technology to organizational forms; and a knowledge of Japanese technological and economic history can contribute importantly to our understanding of economic growth in the modern era. This book studies the industrial development of Japan since the mid-nineteenth century, with particular emphasis on how the various industries built technological capabilities. The Japanese were extraordinarily creative in searching out and learning to use modern technologies, and the authors investigate the emergence of entrepreneurs who began new and risky businesses, how the business organizations evolved to cope with changing technological conditions, and how the managers, engineers and workers acquired organizational and technological skills through technology importation, learning-by-doing, and their own R&D activities. The book investigates the interaction between private entrepreneural activities and public policy, through a general examination of economic and industrial development, a study of the evolution of management systems, and six industrial case studies: textiles, iron and steel, electrical and communications equipment, automobiles, shipbuilding and aircraft, and pharmaceuticals. The authors show how the Japanese government has played an important supportive role in the continuing innovation, without being a substitute for aggressive business enterprise constantly venturing into unfamiliar terrains.

By 2030 more than three quarters of the world's absolute poor are projected to live in Africa. Accelerating economic growth is key to rising incomes on the continent, and central to this challenge is establishing activities that are capable of employing large numbers of unskilled workers, that can raise productivity through innovation, and that can power growth through exports. Such structural transformation is a key driver of growth, and between 1950-1996 about half of the economic catch-up by developing countries (led by East Asia) was due to rising productivity in manufacturing combined with growing agricultural output. Africa, however, has lagged behind. In 2014, the average share of manufacturing in GDP in sub-Saharan Africa hovered around 10 per cent, unchanged from the 1970s, leading some observers to be pessimistic about Africa's potential to catch the wave of sustained rapid growth and rising incomes. Industries Without Smokestacks: Industrialization in Africa Reconsidered challenges this view. It argues that other activities sharing the characteristics of manufacturing- including tourism, ICT, and other services as well as food processing and horticulture- are beginning to play a role analogous to that played by manufacturing in East Asia. This reflects not only changes in the global organization of industries since the early era of rapid East Asian growth, but also advantages unique to Africa. These 'industries without smokestacks' offer new opportunities for Africa to grow in coming decades.

LEGO is one of the world's best-loved and most familiar brands, adored by generations of children. What is less well known, though, is how close this iconic company came to total collapse in 2003. Brick by Brick is the compelling story of a Danish family-owned company that enjoyed decades of success before its inability to keep in step with a rapidly changing market brought it crashing to earth. It's also the story of an extraordinary recovery. As disaster stared them in the face, the management of LEGO embarked on an audacious and innovative plan to turn their fortunes around, and then painstakingly implemented it. Today, the company is riding high once again, and enjoying results that are the envy of their competitors. Granted unprecedented access to every part of the LEGO Group, David Robertson not only charts each twist in the company's story but explains precisely what went wrong and how it was fixed. His clear-sighted analysis will prove invaluable to all those who want to understand how companies can not only ride the storm of change, but benefit from it.

The second installment of the "Fisher Investments On" series is a comprehensive guide to the Materials sector. "Fisher Investments on Materials" can benefit both new and seasoned investors, covering everything from Materials sector basics to specific industry insights to practical investing tactics, including common pitfalls to avoid.

The book will begin with a discussion of Fisher Investments' investing philosophy as it applies to the Materials sector. Then, readers will be lead through a discussion of sector basics, what drives the industries, and develop a framework for individual security analysis. Finally, the book will look at industry fundamentals and discuss what investors can do to protect themselves in a down market.

For more information visit www. materials.fisherinvestments.com

A practical guide to materials and manufacturing concepts and applications Written in a straightforward, conversational style, this comprehensive textbook offers a hands-on introduction to materials science and manufacturing techniques. You will explore metallic and nonmetallic materials, their properties and applications, and how products are made from them, including traditional, additive, and advanced manufacturing methods. Materials and Manufacturing: An Introduction to How They Work and Why It Matters starts off by explaining materials science fundamentals and progresses to outline manufacturing processes in the order in which they are often employed. Coverage includes:*Metallic materials and processing*Nonmetallic materials and processing*Practical considerations in materials and manufacturing*Material structure, identification, and application*Compositional and property-based classification*Mechanical, thermal, and environmental concepts*Methods of testing materials*Sawing, broaching, filing, and abrasive machining*Milling, turning, boring, and hole making operations*Cohesive assembly through heat and chemical welding*Mechanical and adhesive assembly and finishing operations*The benefits and roles of additive and advanced manufacturing

During the past eight decades French vineyards, wineries, and wine marketing efforts have undergone such profound changes--from technological, scientific, economic, and commercial standpoints--that the transformation is revolutionary for an industry dating back thousands of years. Here Leo Loubre examines how the modernization of Western society has brought about new conditions in well-established markets, making the introduction of novel techniques and processes a matter of survival for winegrowers. Not only does Loubre explain how altered environmental conditions have enabled pioneering enologists to create styles of wine more suited to contemporary tastes and living arrangements, but he also discusses the social impact of the wine revolution on the employees in the industry. The third generation of this new viticultural regime has encountered working and living conditions drastically different from those of its predecessors, while witnessing the near disappearance of the working class and the decline of small and medium growers of ordinary wines. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The obrajes, or native textile manufactories, were primary agents of developing capitalism in colonial Mexico. Drawing on previously unknown or unexplored archival sources, Richard Salvucci uses standard economic theory and simple measurement to analyze the obraje and its inability to survive Mexico's integration into the world market after 1790. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

While some writers account for Japan's postwar economic "miracle" in terms of a distinctively Japanese, traditional model of social organization, the writers of this study consider Japan's technological growth to have been accompanied by convergence toward modernized social organization. The authors test both of these theoretical models. Their data are derived from a nine-month period of observation, analysis of company records, interviews of personnel, and questionnaire responses from production, staff, and managerial employees in three main Japanese firms. Other firms were visited more briefly. The analysis shows that the most distinctively Japanese variables have less causal impact on performance within a firm than do more universal variables such as employee status, sex, and job satisfaction. The authors test both of these theoretical models. Their data are derived from a nine-month period of observation, analysis of company records, interviews of personnel, and questionnaire responses from production, staff, and managerial employees in three main Japanese firms. Other firms were visited more briefly. The analysis shows that the most distinctively Japanese variables have less causal impact on performance within a firm than do more universal variables such as employee status, sex, and job satisfaction. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

In 1900 the manufacture of rubber products in the United States was concentrated in several hundred small plants around New York and Boston that employed low-paid immigrant workers with no intervention from unions. By the mid-1930s, thanks to the automobile and the Depression, production was concentrated in Ohio, the labor force was largely native born and highly paid, and labor organizations had a decisive influence on the industry. Daniel Nelson tells the story of these changes as a case study of union growth against a background of critical developments in twentieth-century economic life. The author emphasizes the years after 1910, when a crucial distinction arose between big, mass-production rubber producers and those that were smaller and more labor intensive. In the 1930s mass-production workers took the lead in organizing the labor movement, and they dominated the international union, the United Rubber Workers, until the end of the decade. Professor Nelson discusses not only labor's triumph over adversity but also the problems that occurred with union victories: the flight of the industry to low-wage communities in the South and Midwest, internal tensions in the union, and rivalry with the American Federation of Labor. The experiences of the URW in the late 1930s foreshadowed the longer-term challenges that the labor movement has faced in recent decades. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Pflichtfortsetzung KunststoffeTechnik - Daten - Kompaktwissen 6000 Produkte. Eine Vielzahl physikalisch-technischer Daten. Niemand kann sie alle kennnen. Aber jeder sollte wissen, wo er sich detailliert daruber informieren kann, was fur ihn wichtig ist - fur neue Projekte, aktuelle Entscheidungen, alltagliche Arbeitsablaufe. Kunststoffedas Loseblattwerk aus dem Springer-Verlag verschafft Herstellern, Verarbeitern und Handlern den kompetenten Uberblick uber die Handelprodukte. Gleichzeitig erleichtert es die individuelle Auswahl der fur sein Problem geeigneten Handelsprodukte. Kunststoffebasiert auf einer anerkannt kompetenten Quelle: Es ist ein Auszug aus der Datenbank "Polymat" des Deutschen Kunststoff-Institutes (DKI) in Darmstadt. KunststoffeDas Werk ist in 3 Serien gegliedert: - Thermoplaste - Hartbare Formmassen - GiessharzeJede Serie wird in mehreren Ordnern (Teilbanden) geliefert, je nachdem, wieviele Merkblatter zu der Produktgruppe gehoren. Die erste Lieferung von 800 Merkblattern uber Thermoplaste liegt vor, weitere 800 in 2 Ordnern erscheinen voraussichtlich im Juni. Ein zusatzlicher Registerband fur die Loseblatt-Sammlung "Kunststoffe-Thermoplaste" erschliesst den Zugang zu den Merkblattern. Erlautert werden die Auswahlkriterien von Verarbeitungsdaten sowie die Benutzung der Merkblatter. Die Register eroffnen daruberhinaus einen Zugang zu Herstellern bzw. Anbietern sowie die Kunststoff-Art und Produktname. Die Merkblatt-Nummer wird mit der Dokument-Nummer der Datenbank "Polymat" des DKI verknupft. Das Register wird analog zur Auslieferung weiterer Bande anwachsen. Pflichtfortsetzung: Entweder Bezug des kompletten Werkes "Kunststoffe" oder eines kompletten Themenbereiches (z.B. Thermoplaste)"

Kunststoffedas Loseblattwerk aus dem Springer-Verlag verschafft Herstellern, Verarbeitern und Handlern den kompetenten Uberblick uber die Handelsprodukte. Gleichzeitig erleichtert es die individuelle Auswahl der fur ihre Probleme geeigneten Handelsprodukte. Kunststoffebasiert auf einer anerkannt kompetenten Quelle: Es ist ein Auszug aus der Datenbank "Polymat" des Deutschen Kunststoff-Institutes (DKI) in Darmstadt. KunststoffeDas Werk ist in 3 Teile gegliedert: - Thermoplaste - Hartbare Formmassen - Giessharze.Jeder Teil wird in mehreren Ordnern geliefert, je nachdem, wieviele Merkblatter zu der Produktgruppe gehoren. Es liegen nun 4800 Merkblatter uber Thermoplaste in 12 Banden vor. Die "Reihe" Thermoplaste ist hiermit abgeschlossen. Ein zusatzlicher Registerband fur die Loseblatt-Sammlung "Kunststoffe-Thermoplaste" erschliesst den Zugang zu den Merkblattern. Erlautert werden die Auswahlkriterien von Verarbeitungsdaten sowie die Benutzung der Merkblatter. Die Register eroffnen daruberhinaus einen Zugang zu Herstellern bzw. Anbietern sowie die Kunststoff-Art und Produktname. Die Merkblatt-Nummer wird mit der Dokument-Nummer der Datenbank "Polymat" des DKI verknupft."

Ein zusatzlicher Registerband fur die Loseblatt-Sammlung "Kunststoffe-Thermoplaste" erschliesst den Zugang zu den Merkblattern. Erlautert werden die Auswahlkriterien von Verarbeitungsdaten sowie die Benutzung der Merkblatter. Die Register eroffnen daruberhinaus einen Zugang zu Herstellern bzw. Anbietern sowie die Kunststoff-Art und Produktname. Die Merkblatt-Nummer wird mit der Dokument-Nummer der Datenbank "Polymat" des DKI verknupft. Das Register wachst analog zur Auslieferung weiterer Bande an."

Wie bereits Band I, der die zu verbindenden Werkstoffe behandelt, wurde nunmehr auch Band II, der den Verfahren und der einschl{gigen Fertigungstechnik gewidmet ist, vollst{ndig }berarbeitet und aktualisiert. Letzteres betrifft insbesondere die Ausf}hrungen }ber das Laserstrahlschwei~en und -schneiden, das Kleben, das thermische Spritzen wie die Verfahrensautomatisierung. Da die bew{hrte Darstellungsweise unver{ndert geblieben ist, wird das Werk seinem Ruf als f}hrendes Handbuch auch weiterhin gerecht und f}r viele Jahre zuverl{ssiger Ratgeber auf diesem wichtigen Gebiet der F}getechnik bleiben. Hierzu lieferbar: J. Ruge, Handbuch der Schwei~technik. - Bd. 1: Werkstoffe, 3.Auflage 1991 DM 260,00 ISBN 3-540-52697-8 - Bd. 3: Konstruktive Gestaltung der Bauteile, 2. Auflage 1985. DM 270,00 ISBN 3-540-10361-9 -Bd. 4: Berechnung der Verbindungen, 2. Auflage 1988 DM 390,00 ISBN 3-540-17977-1.

Ganz in der Tradition des bewahrten OEHLER/KAISER steht dieses aktuelle Werk, das praxisbezogen die neuesten Entwicklungen der Schneidtechnik darstellt.

Die fur den Forschungs-und Entwicklungsprozess in Wissenschaft und Praxis benoetigten Informatio- nen werden in zunehmendem Masse uber Datenbanken zur Verfugung gestellt, die den direkten Zugriff auf Literaturhinweise, auf Fakten oder auch auf den Volltext eines Dokumentes gestatten. Die Bundesregierung foerdert den Aufbau derartiger Datenbanken, da sie der UEberzeugung ist, hiermit einen Beitrag zur Schaffung optimaler Voraussetzungen fur den wissenschaftlichen Fortschritt und den industriellen Innovationsprozess zu erbringen. Die gerade in der Bundesrepublik auf einer anerkannten Tradition beruhenden gedruckten Informationsdienste verlieren gegenuber elektroni- scher Fachinformation aber keineswegs an Bedeutung, da sie als preiswerte Nachschlagewerke jederzeit verfugbar sind. Mit den vorliegenden ersten Banden der Datensammlung Kunststoffe - Technische Daten von Handelsprodukten liegt ein Werk vor, das auf der Datenbank POL YMAT aufbaut. Diese Daten- bank des Deutschen Kunststoff-Instituts wird vom Fachinformationszentrum Chemie uber das Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe im internationalen Verbundsystem Scientific and Technical Information Network (STN) im Online-Zugriff angeboten. Im vorliegenden Werk sehe ich einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Forschung und Entwicklung in einem immer bedeutender werdenden Werkstoffbereich und bin davon uberzeugt, dass hiermit allen auf diesem Gebiet Tatigen ein nutzliches und gerne genutztes Informationsmittel in die Hand gegeben wird. Dr. Albert Probst Parlamentarischer Staatssekretar im Bundesministerium fur Forschung und Technologie Vorwort Die vorliegende Sammlung technischer Daten soll Konstrukteuren, Verarbeitern und Anwendern von Kunststoffen den UEberblick uber das Werkstoffangebot erleichtern. Sie soll bei der Werkstoffauswahl unterstutzen und den Zugriff auf die fur moderne, rechner-gestutzte Fertigungsverfahren erforder- lichen Daten vereinfachen.