Optional Options: Work Design and Manufacturing Automation

Abstract

Part 1 Prologue: spectacles and spectacles. Part 2 Theoretical perspectives: design orientations technical systems product markets labour markets research models and hypotheses. Part 3 Automated manufacturing: forms of automated manufacturing the diffusion of automated manufacturing in the Netherlands. Part 4 Work design and automated manufacturing in the Netherlands: CNC-machines industrial robots flexible manufacturing systems. The division of labour around arc wielding robots: methodology case descriptions cross-case analysis.