Transforming Automobile Assembly: Experience in Automation and Work Organization

by Koichi Shimokawa (Editor), Ulrich Jürgens (Editor), Takahiro Fujimoto (Editor)

For the world's leading car-makers, the early 1990s brought radical changes. The reports published by MIT shocked management in European and American industries. Former major companies had to face consequences no one had expected. The assembly-lines were reorganized in order to achieve higher quality at lower costs.
Five years after the MIT report, this book poses the What are the results of this revolution in work organization? Scientists and practitioners, many of them involved in earlier reports, evaluate the changes to the automotive industry in Europe and Japan. An insight into recent concepts in automation and the organization of production.

424 pages, Paperback

First published January 16, 1997