Extended Work Cycle Assembly - A crucial learning experience
Journal article, 1994

This paper reports on a crucial learning experience relating to design principles applied in the Volvo Car Corporation final assembly plant in Uddevalla, Sweden. These principles include the concept of holistic learning, specifically through the creation and transformation of complementary, interrelated physical, semantical, and cognitive structures. We report on the learning environment and learning aids, as well as the learning method applied to the assembly of one-quarter of an automobile performed by one single person. Through the application of this learning concept, it proved possible to dramatically reduce the learning time required for long cycle time assembly work, making cycle times of 2 hours or more a practical proposition for full-scale automotive manufacturing today.

learning and training

gestalt psychology

work structuring

Volvo Uddevalla plant

alternatives to line assembly

autonomous workgroups

long work cycle times

socio-technology

vocational learning

parallel product flows

small workgroups

Author

Tomas Engström

Department of Transportation and Logistics

Lars Medbo

Department of Transportation and Logistics

Dan Jonsson

University of Gothenburg

The International journal of human factors in manufacturing

1045-2699 (ISSN)

Vol. 4 3 293-303

Subject Categories

Other Engineering and Technologies

Other Engineering and Technologies not elsewhere specified

DOI

10.1002/hfm.4530040306

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