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Author : Ann Majchrzak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780608215716
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (157 download)
Download or read book The Human Side of Factory Automation written by Ann Majchrzak and published by . This book was released on 1988-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ann Majchrzak
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Human Side of Factory Automation written by Ann Majchrzak and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1988-03-09 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a valuable approach for addressing the full range of management, organizational, and human resource issues that arise when factories implement advanced manufacturing technologies. Draws on recent case studies, surveys, and results of extensive research to examine the effects of automation on job design, organizational structure, and union-management relations.E
Author : Ann Majchrzak
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Human Side of Factory Automation written by Ann Majchrzak and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1988-03-09 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a valuable approach for addressing the full range of management, organizational, and human resource issues that arise when factories implement advanced manufacturing technologies. Draws on recent case studies, surveys, and results of extensive research to examine the effects of automation on job design, organizational structure, and union-management relations.E
Author : David Noble
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351519603
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Forces of Production written by David Noble and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the design and implementation of computer-based automatic machine tools, David F. Noble challenges the idea that technology has a life of its own. Technology has been both a convenient scapegoat and a universal solution, serving to disarm critics, divert attention, depoliticize debate, and dismiss discussion of the fundamental antagonisms and inequalities that continue to beset America. This provocative study of the postwar automation of the American metal-working industry—the heart of a modern industrial economy—explains how dominant institutions like the great corporations, the universities, and the military, along with the ideology of modern engineering shape, the development of technology. Noble shows how the system of "numerical control," perfected at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and put into general industrial use, was chosen over competing systems for reasons other than the technical and economic superiority typically advanced by its promoters. Numerical control took shape at an MIT laboratory rather than in a manufacturing setting, and a market for the new technology was created, not by cost-minded producers, but instead by the U. S. Air Force. Competing methods, equally promising, were rejected because they left control of production in the hands of skilled workers, rather than in those of management or programmers. Noble demonstrates that engineering design is influenced by political, economic, managerial, and sociological considerations, while the deployment of equipment—illustrated by a detailed case history of a large General Electric plant in Massachusetts—can become entangled with such matters as labor classification, shop organization, managerial responsibility, and patterns of authority. In its examination of technology as a human, social process, Forces of Production is a path-breaking contribution to the understanding of this phenomenon in American society.
Author : Gavriel Salvendy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471594475
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (944 download)
Download or read book Design of Work and Development of Personnel in Advanced Manufacturing written by Gavriel Salvendy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1994-03-31 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a framework of worldwide problems, issues and solutions relevant to the design of work and development of personnel in advanced manufacturing systems. Focuses on people and their central roles in automated production resulting from rapid computer-based integration. Addresses social, technical, organizational, managerial and ecological design issues relating to manufacturing success and the business objectives of a firm. Provides solutions to problems of integrating the human element into the production process.
Author : David Holman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470859156
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The New Workplace written by David Holman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-07-07 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Just-in-time", "total quality management", "lean manufacturing", "call centres", "team work", "empowerment" - most people in business have heard these buzz words, often offered as a panacea to all profit ills. So why don't they always work? Can you combine them anyhow? If not, why not? The New Workplace Handbook is a comprehensive guide to the evidence available on how modern working practices and technology affect the people in organizations. Within a broad psychological framework, leading experts examine how people work, their experience of work, the impact on productivity and performance and the human resource implications. Guidance is offered on a range of different methods, tools and practices that can be used to guide the design and implementation of modern working practices to ensure that pitfalls are avoided and the best possible results are obtained from new initiatives. Indispensable for consultants, this Handbook will also be useful for students and scholars in the psychology of business, human resource professionals and anyone involved in the management of new working practices.
Author : David Holman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470022167
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Essentials of the New Workplace written by David Holman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-05-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original hardback edition of The New Workplace examined modern business terms such as total quality management, just-in-time production, e-business, lean manufacturing and teleworking. It explored what these terms really mean and what effect they have in practice - especially their impact on productivity and performance and their social and psychological consequences. This paperback is a shorter, revised version of the original book. It will focus on working practices, especially technology orientated ones, which are the most relevant and innovative for consultants.
Author : B. Jank
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483105636
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (831 download)
Download or read book Instrumentation, Control and Automation of Water and Wastewater Treatment and Transport Systems 1993 written by B. Jank and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instrumentation, Control and Automation of Water and Wastewater Treatment and Transport Systems 1993 comprises a selection of manuscripts on the development of control strategies and their applications and on the status and future directions of Instrumentation, Control, and Automation (ICA) in the water and wastewater industry. The book starts by providing an overview of the status, the constraints and the future prospects for ICA in water and wastewater treatment and transport based on the survey responses of experts from 16 different countries. The text continues by presenting the need for dynamic modeling and simulation software to assist operations staff in developing effective instrumentation control strategies and to provide a training environment for the evaluation of such strategies. The book also covers the critical variables in system success; the use of an enterprise-wide computing that emphasizes the importance of strategic planning, performance measures, and human factors associated with the suggested implementation of applied technology; and the use of part-time unmanned operation at a large wastewater treatment plant. A functional approach based on the utility’s water and wastewater functional requirements; the collection system monitoring and control; water distribution and control systems; dynamic modeling and simulation; and process control strategy and development are also considered. This book will be beneficial to biochemists, wastewater technologists, and public health authorities.
Author : B. Carlsson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401101450
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Technological Systems and Economic Performance: The Case of Factory Automation written by B. Carlsson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1987 the Swedish National Board for Technical Development (STU, later becoming the Swedish National Board for Industrial and Technical Development, NUTEK) initiated a study of Sweden's Technological Systems and Future Development Potential. A comprehensive, interdisciplinary study was envisioned, yielding not only useful insight but also a permanent competence base for future analyses of technological systems and technology policy in Sweden. Three leading Swedish research institutes were invited to participate: the Industrial Institute for Economic and Social Research in Stockholm, the Department ofIndustrial Management and Economics at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, and the Research Policy Institute at the University of Lund. I was invited to direct the project. The project group decided to focus initially on a particular technological system, namely factory automation, to be followed by similar studies of other systems. Numerous publications have resulted from the project thus far. The current volume represents a summary of our work on factory automation. It consists of several original essays and of some previously published papers which have been edited, in some cases substantially, in order to form a comprehensive and coherent picture of a technological system. To our knowledge, this is the first in-depth analysis of a technological system designed as a component of a systematic study of technological systems more generally. At the time of this writing, three further studies on electronics and computers, pharmaceuticals, and powder technology are under way, to be published in a later volume.
Author : Gerald Hage
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429830823
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Organizational Innovation written by Gerald Hage and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1998. In the past year the 300 largest global companies increased their research budgets by an average of 12 per cent. Governments now measure how technologically advanced they are as they worry about their trade balances and unemployment. Many public sector organizations, for example hospitals, universities and welfare agencies, are struggling to keep up with the rate of technological progress. The selections in this book provide a number of insights on how private firms can be more innovative and public sector organizations can keep up with rapid technological change. They emphasize both radical and incremental innovations and both product and process innovation. In particular the advanced manufacturing technologies so central to Piore and Sabel’s ’Second Industrial Divide’ receive a great deal of attention. Finally, the consequences of innovation are the focus of the last section.
Author : Sebastian Skatulla
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303132515X
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)
Download or read book Advances in Information Technology in Civil and Building Engineering written by Sebastian Skatulla and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of information technology in civil and building engineering, presented at the 19th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE), held in Cape Town, South Africa on October 26-28, 2022. It covers highly diverse topics such as BIM, construction information modeling, knowledge management, GIS, GPS, laser scanning, sensors, monitoring, VR/AR, computer-aided construction, product and process modeling, big data and IoT, cooperative design, mobile computing, simulation, structural health monitoring, computer-aided structural control and analysis, ICT in geotechnical engineering, computational mechanics, asset management, maintenance, urban planning, facility management, and smart cities. Written by leading researchers and engineers, and selected by means of a rigorous international peer-review process, the contributions highlight numerous exciting ideas that will spur novel research directions and foster multidisciplinary collaborations.
Author : Steve Sauter
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 020397462X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Beyond Biomechanics written by Steve Sauter and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-08-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is now widespread recognition that psychosocial factors play a key role in the aetiology, perpetuation, management and prevention of cumulative trauma disorders CTDs. This text addresses the strength, direction and importance of links between psychosocial factors and CTDs.; The book's contributors examine critically current research data, identify potential link mechanisms, and recommend measures for control and prevention. Topics covered include socio-organizational psychology, medical anthropology, occupational medicine, rehabilitation, orthopaedics, job stress and ergonomic interventions. The book aims to demystify the concept of the "psychosocial", so as to promote and assure effective prevention in the workplace.
Author : Committee on Visionary Manufacturing Challenges
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309522900
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Visionary Manufacturing Challenges for 2020 written by Committee on Visionary Manufacturing Challenges and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1998-12-02 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manufacturing will unquestionably be a very different enterprise in 2020 from what it is today. This book presents an exciting picture of the profitable and productive potential of manufacturing two decades hence. This book takes an international view of future manufacturing that considers the leaps and bounds of technological innovation and the blurring of the lines between the manufacturing and service industries. The authors identify ten strategic technology areas as the most important for research and development and they recommend ways to address crosscutting questions. Representing a variety of industries, the authors identify six "grand challenges" that must be overcome for their vision to be realized, including the human/technology interface, environmental concerns, and miniaturization. A host of issues are discussed that will push and pull at manufacturing over the next 20 years: the changing workforce, the changing consumer, the rise of bio- and nanotechnology, the prospects for waste-free processing, simulation and modeling as design tools, shifts in global competition, and much more. The information and analyses in this book will be vitally important to everyone concerned about the future of manufacturing: policymakers, executives, design and engineering professionals, researchers, faculty, and students.
Author : Hal W. Hendrick
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1410612414
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Macroergonomics written by Hal W. Hendrick and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-04-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book's primary objective is to provide a comprehensive coverage of ergonomics in overall work system analysis and design. It provides a summary of the historical development of macroergonomics. It explains how an understanding of macroergonomics can lead to improvements in such things as reducing work-related lost time accidents; and describes the methods and tools used in work system analysis and design. Throughout, the integrating theme is that the full potential of an organization--in terms of productivity, safety, health, and Quality of Work Life (QWL)--can't be met unless the overall work system is designed to conform with the characteristics of its technology, personnel subsystem, and the external environment upon which it depends for its survival and success. Using a sociotechnical systems approach, this text discusses the application of macroergonomics to training system development, hazard management, technology transfer, large scale organizational change projects, office and factory automation, community planning and development, and job design. For each of these applications, actual case examples will be included. The book will appeal to teachers of introductory human factors/ergonomics courses as a supplemental text or as the primary text for a course fully devoted to macroergonomics. In addition, it should also appeal to practicing ergonomists internationally as a must add to their personal professional libraries.
Author : John R. Wilson
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1466559624
Total Pages : 1031 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (665 download)
Download or read book Evaluation of Human Work written by John R. Wilson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 1031 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by experts with real-world experience in applying ergonomics methodology in a range of contexts, Evaluation of Human Work, Fourth Edition explores ergonomics and human factors from a "doing it" perspective. More than a cookbook of ergonomics methods, the book encourages students to think about which methods they should apply, when, and why.
Author : ROSENFELD, R./W
Publisher : McGraw Hill
ISBN 13 : 0077126122
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (771 download)
Download or read book EBOOK: Managing Organizations Text Reading & Cases written by ROSENFELD, R./W and published by McGraw Hill. This book was released on 1998-11-16 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBOOK: Managing Organizations Text Reading & Cases
Author : Pascale Carayon
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482269503
Total Pages : 1016 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety written by Pascale Carayon and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-09-08 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete resource, this handbook presents current knowledge on concepts and methods of human factors and ergonomics, and their applications to help improve quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness in patient care. It provides specific information on how to analyze medical errors with the fundamental goal to reduce such errors and the harm that potentially ensues. Editor Pascale Carayon and an impressive group of contributors highlight important issues relevant to healthcare providers and professionals and their employers. They discuss the design of work environments and working conditions to improve satisfaction and well-being, and the reduction of burnout and other ailments often experienced by healthcare providers and professionals. It is a remarkably comprehensive account offering readers invaluable knowledge from individuals who are some of the most respected in the field.
