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Forcing the Factory of the Future

Forcing the Factory of the Future

Hardcover

EconomicsLaborGeneral Computers

ISBN10: 0521572061
ISBN13: 9780521572064
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Jun 26 1997
Pages: 318
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This study of the pursuit of the automatic factory focuses on the key industry of metalworking in Britain, Italy, Japan and the United States. It unveils a recurring historical conflict between two logics of factory management and organization: workshop principles and principles of a standardized factory. Case studies of Flexible Manufacturing Systems in these four countries and their sociopolitical contexts show national variations and tensions between factory and workshop principles continuing into the age of computerization.

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