Assembly Systems and Work in the Swedish Automotive Industry
Kapitel i bok, 2013
This is an edited chapter in a book (editor was Åke Sandberg from the Swedish Institute for work Life Research Stockholm (Arbetslivsinstitutet in Swedish). This publication enlightens the authors' research and development work regarding alternatives to line assembly. Comprising e.g. explaining of the different (real-life) assembly systems utilized in Sweden all through the passing years.
In a more overarching way, it criticizes the way the insights and experiences gained by such (more or less socio-technically advanced assembly system designs practised (a vast of misunderstandings and rumours are obviously at hand today. To some extent is thereby this actually a refined summarization of some of our earlier scientific contributions (see some of the other publications registered in Chalmers Public Library CPL).
product variants
materials feeding techniques
restructuring of information systems
alternatives to lean production
ergonomics
autonomous workgroups
alternatives to line assembly
assembly work
sociotechnology
learning and training
Volvo Uddevalla plant
work structuring
manufacturing technology
work organisation
long work cycle times
Författare
Bo Blomquist
Göteborgs universitet
Tomas Engström
Chalmers, Teknikens ekonomi och organisation, Logistik och transport
Dan Jonsson
Göteborgs universitet
Lars Medbo
Chalmers, Teknikens ekonomi och organisation, Logistik och transport
Nordic Lights. Work, Management, and Welfare in Scandinavia
225-254
1 85972 106 0 (ISBN)
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