"The Advanced Manufacturing entity makes extensive use of computer, high precision, and information technologies integrated with a high-performance workforce in a production system capable of furnishing a heterogeneous mix of products in small or large volumes with both the efficiency of mass production and the flexibility of custom manufacturing in order to respond quickly to customer demands." (Quoted in PCAST). "In foreseeable future categorical developments facilitated with integration with computers will ... be largely impacted by the state of raw material and energy availability.[1]