COMPUTER-INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING, SUPERVISORY MANAGEMENT, AND HUMAN INTERVENTION IN THE PRODUCTION PROCESS

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CLARK, J
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[1] Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Southampton, Southampton
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10.1016/0925-5273(94)90160-0
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T [工业技术];
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The origins of Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) lie in an engineering culture of the early 1980s fascinated by the ideal of a totally automated, workerless, mass production factory. This ideal has three limitations in reality. It under-estimates the different requirements of batch production industries; assumes that total automation is always desirable; and underplays the importance of links between manufacturing and the wider business. The paper examines Pirelli Cables's experience with CIM in a greenfield factory in South Wales, tracing how and why the Company modified its original ideal towards a more incremental approach building in greater scope for employee intervention.
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