New technology and manufacturing management : strategic choices for flexible production systems
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New technology and manufacturing management : strategic choices for flexible production systems
（New technologies and work）
J. Wiley in association with the Commission of the European Communities, 1990
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The author's aim is to present an alternative view to the technology-centred approach which dominates many of the endeavours in the field and to contrast it with a human-centred one. This human-centred approach emphasizes competence and skills as opposed to hardware, and underlines the social choices which are available, thus playing down the deterministic approach of many of the "technology" theorists. The chapters are designed to illustrate a European perspective on a humanistic application of the new manufacturing technology, which is socially acceptable and managerially viable.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Overview and predicted trends towards the flexible factory: integrated technical concepts - towards the fully automated factory, Hans-Jorg Bullinger
- flexibility as managers see it, Nigel Slack
- the emerging newly skilled production worker, Michael Schumann
- qualification and skill requirements, Alain D'Iribarne. Part 2 Conditions which make flexible production work: organization and integration of production systems, Bill Haywood and John Bessant
- process-related skills, Rainer Schultz Wild
- technocentric-anthropocentric approaches - towards skill based manufacturing, Peter Brodner
- design for human machine interfaces, Martin Corbett
- strategic options for CIM integration, Gunter Lay. Part 3 A European overview - the state of the art in different countries: a European overview of work and vocational training, Arndt Sorge
- flexible specialization in Denmark, Peer Hull Kristensen
- flexible manufacturing systems and cells in the Federal Republic of Germany, Jutta Fix-Sterz et al
- the diffusion of programmable automated systems in the Netherlands, Rob Bilderbeek
- a European view of advanced manufacturing in the United States, Werner Wobbe. Part 4 Strategic management applications: the factors behind successful technology innovation, Martin Lockett
- managing advanced manufacturing technology, Adrian Campbell and Malcolm Warner.
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