document: Exploratory study of the adoption of manufacturing technology innovations in the USA and the UK Manufacturing technologies , appropriately implemented , provide competitive advantage to manufacturers . The use of manufacturing technologies across countries is difficult to compare . One such comparison has been provided in the literature with a study of US and Japanese practices in advanced manufacturing technology use using a common questionnaire . The present study compares the use of 17 different technologies in similar industries in the USA -LRB- n = 1025 -RRB- and UK -LRB- n = 166 -RRB- using a common questionnaire . Largely , there are remarkable similarities between the two countries . This may partly correlate with the heavy traffic in foreign direct investment between the two nations . Notable differences are -LRB- 1 -RRB- across-the-board , US manufacturers are ahead of the UK firms in computerized integration with units inside and outside manufacturing organizations ; -LRB- 2 -RRB- US manufacturers show higher labour productivity , which is consistent with macro-economic data , and -LRB- 3 -RRB- more UK manufacturers report the use of soft technologies such as just-in-time , total quality manufacturing and manufacturing cells . Hypotheses for future investigation are proposed
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extractive_keyphrases: manufacturing technology innovations usa uk competitive advantage foreign direct investment labour productivity soft technologies total quality manufacturing manufacturing cells
abstractive_keyphrases: macro-economic data just-in-time