Title :
Human factors and the computer-integrated manufacturing enterprise
Author_Institution :
HUSAT Res. Inst., Loughborough, UK
Abstract :
The management of manufacturing increasingly makes use of information technology, and concomitantly the role of human factors has grown. From the perspective of managing engineering technology, the author identifies four of the trends currently being introduced into British Industry: total quality, the distributed enterprise, communications and the software engineered manufacturing organisation
Keywords :
economics; human factors; management; manufacturing computer control; quality control; British Industry; CIM; communications; computer-integrated manufacturing; distributed enterprise; engineering technology; human factors; management; production control; total quality;
Conference_Titel :
Human Factor in CIM , IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location :
London
