Shop Floor Control — A Systems Perspective: From Deterministic Models towards Agile Operations Management

✍ Scribed by Eric Scherer (auth.), Dr. Eric Scherer (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 385
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Shop floor control and namely the problem of job shop scheduling have been fields of research for a long time. However, until now no comprehensive framework on the various aspects exists. This book will provide a systems perspective towards shop floor control by stressing its sociotechnical and cybernetical nature. It focuses on the behavioral aspects of control activities and sees the shop floor as the center of value-adding manufacturing activities within an enterprise. The book enables the reader to understand the interaction of organization, information technology and human resources. This eventually allows to achieve holistic and agile solutions and facilitates profound organizational change. The book will therefore provide a welcome addition to several standard textbooks on the issue.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Reality of Shop Floor Control — Approaches to Systems Innovation....Pages 3-26
Control on the Verge of Chaos — Analysis of Dynamic Production Structures....Pages 27-65
Rationality, Culture and Politics of Production....Pages 67-90
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Models, Systems and Reality: Knowledge Generation and Strategies for Systems Design....Pages 93-125
Systems Concepts and Organizational Design: A Basic Review....Pages 127-150
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
From Central Planning and Control to Self-Regulation on the Shop Floor....Pages 153-171
Systems Models and Concepts for Disributed Production Planning and Control....Pages 173-198
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Approaches to Shop Floor Scheduling — A Critical Review....Pages 201-220
The Link to the ‘Real World’: Information, Knowledge and Experience for Decision Making....Pages 221-243
Front Matter....Pages 245-245
The Application of Information Technology at Shop Floor Level: Use and Acceptance....Pages 247-255
Supervisory Control Principles for Dynamic Operations Management of Manufacturing Shop Floors....Pages 257-289
IT at the Shop Floor — Criteria-based Methodologies for Human-Machine Task Allocation....Pages 291-309
Guidelines for Systems Design for Operational Production Management....Pages 311-325
Front Matter....Pages 327-327
Making Teams Work — A Key for Effective Shop Floor Control....Pages 329-341
Shop Floor Control as a Task of Organizational Development....Pages 343-366
Work-Process Knowledge and the School-to-Work Transition....Pages 367-380
Back Matter....Pages 381-386

✦ Subjects

Production/Logistics/Supply Chain Management; Industrial and Production Engineering