The Swedish Model of Lean Production: The Volvo and Saab Cases

Göran Brulin and Tommy Nilsson

Chapter Chapter 14 in Teamwork in the Automobile Industry, 1999, pp 327-345 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In 1991, management at Torslanda, in Gothenburg, launched a so-called KLE programme, the Swedish acronym for Quality, Precise Delivery and Economy (reduction of lead-time and assembly hours). One year earlier, Saab had introduced its corresponding QLE programme. Later an ‘H’ was added, for Human Resource Development. Here we will give an account of the changes of work organisation at Volvo Torslanda and at Saab in Trollhättan, the main assembly plants of the two Swedish car producers.

Keywords: Assembly Line; Local Union; Work Organisation; Work Task; Line Balance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-14933-9_15

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