Extended Work Cycle Assembly - A crucial learning experience

Engström, Tomas,1950Chalmers tekniska högskola,Chalmers University of Technology (author)

This paper reports on a crucial learning experience relating to design principles applied in the Volvo Car Corporation final assembly plant in Uddevalla, Sweden. These principles include the concept of holistic learning, specifically through the creation and transformation of complementary, interrelated physical, semantical, and cognitive structures. We report on the learning environment and learning aids, as well as the learning method applied to the assembly of one-quarter of an automobile performed by one single person. Through the application of this learning concept, it proved possible to dramatically reduce the learning time required for long cycle time assembly work, making cycle times of 2 hours or more a practical proposition for full-scale automotive manufacturing today.

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER Annan teknik hsv//swe
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY Other Engineering and Technologies hsv//eng
TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER Annan teknik Övrig annan teknik hsv//swe
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY Other Engineering and Technologies Other Engineering and Technologies not elsewhere specified hsv//eng
learning and training
gestalt psychology
work structuring
Volvo Uddevalla plant
alternatives to line assembly
autonomous workgroups
long work cycle times
socio-technology
vocational learning
parallel product flows
small workgroups

Medbo, Lars,1957Chalmers tekniska högskola,Chalmers University of Technology(Swepub:cth)larmed (author)
Jonsson, Dan,1942Göteborgs universitet,University of Gothenburg (author)
Chalmers tekniska högskolaGöteborgs universitet (creator_code:org_t)

In:The International journal of human factors in manufacturing: Wiley4:3, s. 293-3031045-26991522-7111

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