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 3 293-303Subject Categories
Other Engineering and Technologies
Other Engineering and Technologies not elsewhere specified
DOI
10.1002/hfm.4530040306