Organizational alternatives for flexible manufacturing systems

António Brandão Moniz ()

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Abstract: There is an increasing importance of different productive architectures related to worker involvement in the decision making, where is given due attention to the intuitive capabilities and the human knowledge in the optimization and flexibilization of manufacturing processes. Thus having reference point architecture of a flexible manufacturing and assembling system existent at UNINOVA-CRI, we will present some exploratory hypothesis about applicability of the concept of hybridization and its repercussions on the definition of jobs, in those organizations and in the formation of working teams.

Keywords: flexibility; robotics; work organization; manufacturing industry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J28 J24 O33 L60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996-02

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