Bryn Jones

Forcing the Factory of the Future

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A comparative analysis of the impact of automation and computerisation on the metalworking industry.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9780521572064
• ISBN-10: 0521572061
• Artikelnr.: 29339289

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Workshop Versus the Factory: 1. Introduction: explaining factory evolution
2. Past production paradigms: the workshop, Taylorism and Fordism
3. Productivity for prosperity: industrial renewal and Cold War politics
Part II. Technologies of Control: 4. Technological evolution and the pathology of batch production
5. Numerical control, work organisation and societal institutions
Part III. Cybernation and flexibility: 6. The cybernated factory and the American dream
7. An American deviant: FMS at Alpha
8. Easy-peasy Japanesey: flexible automation in Japan
9. Revolution from above: FMS in Britain
10. The third Italy and technological dualism
11. Conclusion: the struggle continues.