Shop Floor Control - A Systems Perspective
Subtitle: From Deterministic Models towards Agile Operations Management
By: edited by Eric Scherer
Edition: 1.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9783642643491; 9783642603136
Subjects: Industrial engineering; Economics
Description: 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.
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Table of contents: title: From the Contents: Understanding Shop Floor Control - A Close Look at Reality; title: Systems and Organizations; title: Control Stategies for Complex Manufacturing Systems; title: Planning, Scheduling and Control: Aspects of Decision Making; title: Making Use of Information Technology: Man - Machine Interaction; title: On the Road to Agility: Changing Organizational Structures.