Automated Systems Based on Human Skill (and Intelligence)
Selected Papers from the IFAC Symposium, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, 23-25 September 1992
Published on 22. October 1993
Book
Hardback
136 pages
978-0-08-041714-1 (ISBN)
Description
This symposium brought together end-users, managers and designers to examine and discuss the interaction between automated systems and related technologies and those working with them. It seems evident that the optimum method to implement modern production processes is to involve all participants in the systems, paying particular attention to the needs and abilities of end-users and machine operators. The papers in this volume represent progress towards the goal of an increase in the efficiency of technology and the workforce, and the realization of a skill-based system of manufacturing, process and clerical work. This work is suitable for engineers and designers working towards the refinement and improvement of modern production processes and systems.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
illustrations, indexes
Dimensions
Height: 318 mm
Width: 222 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-08-041714-1 (9780080417141)
Copyright in bibliographic data is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or its licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Content
Technology training: transferring control to the learner (M. Parker, G. Saganski). Technical change activities: an integrative approach to operators' skills development and technical change (P. Friedrich). Robotics design for pharmaceutical processing: a human perspective (H. Trechsel). Standing on the edge: engineering students grapple with skill-based automation (S. Kuhn, C. Richardson). Automation and restructuring: how industrial relations affects change in the Wisconsin metal working industry (N. Harvey). On the design of skill supporting computer-aided technologies (P.T. Kidd). An approach to work design and computer support for concurrent maintenance and quality control in manufacturing industries (U. Sandberg, K. Franzen). Designing integrated production systems (C. Everaere, C. Mahieu). Considering human factors in the design of automated manufacturing systems (T. Martin). The role of socio-technical systems engineering in implementing office automation and information technologies (B.S. Caldwell). Total quality management and skills-based automation (F. Emspak). Concurrent engineering in the automotive industry: prospects for worker participation (C.J. Haddad). Electronic performance monitoring: implications for work design (J. Lund). Utilization of human skills and cultural benefits in an organizational change (J. Kiviniitty, T. Alasoini). Work reorganization, industrial relations and vocational training: the Milwaukee-Waukesha training partnership (E. Parker). An anti-union corporate culture and cell manufacturing (K. Knauss, M.H. Matuszak). The role of group production, rational automation and ergonomics for work humanization in developing countries (E. Oliva-Lopez). Skill formation under adversarial industrial relations and weak unions: the cases of the American and French machine tool industries during the 1980s (B. Tidjani).