Transforming Automobile Assembly Experience in Automation and Work Organization

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Synopsis

For the world's leading car-makers, the early 1990s brought radical changes. The reports published by MIT shocked management in European and American industries. Former major companies had to face consequences no one had expected. The assembly-lines were reorganized in order to achieve higher quality at lower costs.Five years after the MIT report, this book poses the question: What are the results of this revolution in work organization? Scientists and practitioners, many of them involved in earlier reports, evaluate the changes to the automotive industry in Europe and Japan. An insight into recent concepts in automation and the organization of production.

Book details

Edition:
1997
Author:
Koichi Shimokawa, Ulrich Jürgens, Takahiro Fujimoto
ISBN:
9783642603747
Related ISBNs:
9783540605065
Publisher:
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2022-08-11
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
1997
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Business and Finance, Nonfiction, Science, Technology