摘要:

Social values will have an increasing impact on the work of the industrial engineer. This will create the need for new approaches to the organization of industrial work both in terms of individual and group performance. From an organizational viewpoint, the creative talent of employees is an important untapped resource which can be harnessed to solve company problems.

ISSN:0020-7543    

DOI:10.1080/00207547708943140

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1977

数据来源: Taylor

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Amongst the types of problem faced by production managers in a wide variety of Canadian industries, those concerned with growth and change are encountered frequently and are especially severe in small firms. This paper proposes and tests the hypothesis that as small companies grow they pass through alternating phases of good and poor performance. During the latter phases there is a high probability of failure brought about by common problems in a homogeneous group of small companies in an industry. The analysis of data so far supports the hypothesis in commercial printing firms of up to 70 employees, but requires modification for larger companies,

ISSN:0020-7543    

DOI:10.1080/00207547708943141

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1977

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

This paper investigates the steady-state behaviour of two and three channel conveyors. There are N types of arrivals, each type is governed by an independent Poisson distribution. Two types of queue disciplines were considered, ordered entry (OE), and service in random order (SIRO). The system's measures of performance were developed.

ISSN:0020-7543    

DOI:10.1080/00207547708943142

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1977

数据来源: Taylor

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The fast-increasing world population is concentrating in urban areas. Today there are approximately 600 million housing units in the world. A fair portion of these units are apartments located in dense building areas in industrialized urban centres. The apartment building maintenance is an integrated subsystem of the urban system. There is a drastic increase in the productivity of maintenance when we institute centralized and rationalized apartment building maintenance system in place of traditional maintenance. The labour costs will decrease 40% and the technical maintenance costs 25%. With the acquisition value of organizing the system the total benefit of the centralized system is clearly profitable with all the possible interest rates and planning horizons.

ISSN:0020-7543    

DOI:10.1080/00207547708943143

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1977

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

The Western European market for automatic test equipment (ATE) purchases is currently estimated to be of the order of $200 000 000 American dollars per annum. The case for installation of ATE stations in the production line and in maintenance workshops is usually primarily based on the requirement for a high rate of test capability (to match the product volume flow) or to Bpeed up the test because the time for manual test methods is too high relative to the product MTBF, or because of a shortage of test personnel of the requisite skill level. There are other benefits, and certain disadvantages, as listed in this paper.

ISSN:0020-7543    

DOI:10.1080/00207547708943144

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1977

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

The paper discusses changes in working conditions in West Germany and the possible approaches to work structuring pioneered by the Philips company. It then considers problems of evaluating alternative work systems and illustrates the application of the theoretical concepts in two examples, car radio and ignition distributor assembly. In both cases it was found that the conventional assembly line was not flexible enough to satisfy either the human needs or the production/marketing requirement.

ISSN:0020-7543    

DOI:10.1080/00207547708943145

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1977

数据来源: Taylor