Linking Two Automotive Companies’ Organisational Structures to their Materials Flow Systems
Preprint, 2004

This almost completed article (preprint not yet published due to one of the two authors retirement) is a sort of summarization carried out until this specific point of time, of the author's combined methods. That is, to analyse production systems using collections of company data, interviews, questionnaire surveys, video-registration, etc. For example, this has been accomplished by means of constructions so-called schematic layouts. Such layouts illuminate the general function of the production system in question. Especially so, in comparison with e.g. the actual drawings of the building facilities.

manufacturing system design

manufacturing technology

socio-technology

questionnaire surveys

small workgroups

sociotechnology

statistical analyses

cross and multi-sciences approaches

Author

Tomas Engström

Chalmers, Department of Logistics and Transportation

Bo Blomquist

University of Gothenburg

Subject Categories

Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics

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Latest update

8/27/2018