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Reconstructing the History of the Main Volvo Tuve Plant: Some general trends, reasons and consequences for different assembly system designs
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- Engström, Tomas, 1950 (författare)
- Chalmers tekniska högskola,Chalmers University of Technology
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- Blomquist, Bo, 1958 (författare)
- Göteborgs universitet,University of Gothenburg
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- Holmstrom, Ove (författare)
- Volvo Group
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- Emerald, 2004
- 2004
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: International Journal of Operations and Production Management. - : Emerald. - 1758-6593 .- 0144-3577. ; 24:8, s. 820-839
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Abstract
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- This paper reports on the history of the main Volvo Tuve truck plant in Gothenburg from its beginnings in 1981 until 2002. It focuses on the assembly work involved in the completion of truck chassis carried out by blue‐collar employees. Extensive (physical) alterations during this period have been important for understanding the plants' present design. The various designs of the assembly system, in combination with alterations and changes, have radically reformed the blue‐collar employee's work in a way that, in most respects, had not been intended. The ambitious guidelines, design assumptions and praxis of the early plant design which promoted collective dimensions of work have shifted to ones in which assembly work can be seen more as a set of individualised tasks. Moreover, the plant, which in earlier times had been small‐scale and utilised a heterogeneous assembly systems design, now has been transformed into a large‐scale plant with a homogeneous assembly systems design. That is, to be more specific, two rather short assembly lines with intermediate buffers (1980s assembly systems design) were turned into the use of extended assembly lines without intermediate buffers (1990s assembly systems designs). The latter assembly systems were earlier working in coexistence with so‐called assembly docks (small workgroups completed their own truck chassis). Lastly, these heterogeneous assembly systems designs were recently changed by further extension of the two main product flows and the assembly docks were closed down (2000s assembly system design). We argue that the choice of assembly systems designs was, and maybe still is, an ad hoc process and not a truly rational process. The history of the Volvo Tuve plant history illuminates how one specific plant can illustrate an uneven line of development with regard to assembly system design, within an organisation which successively has turned more international by an ongoing process of creating one single, larger scale, assembly system design. Thereby leaving behind the characteristics which were once a trademark of the Swedish automotive industry
Ämnesord
- TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER -- Maskinteknik -- Produktionsteknik, arbetsvetenskap och ergonomi (hsv//swe)
- ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY -- Mechanical Engineering -- Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- work organisation
- restructuring of information systems
- assembly work
- alternatives to lean production
- manufacturing technology
- autonomous workgroups
- learning and training
- sociotechnology
- work structuring
- long work cycle times
- ergonomics
- materials feeding techniques
- alternatives to line assembly
- Volvo Tuve plant plant
- product variants
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- art (ämneskategori)
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