Organizational alternatives for flexible manufacturing systems

António 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: J24 J28 L60 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996-02
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