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Shop Floor Control - A Systems Perspective

From Deterministic Models towards Agile Operations Management

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Eric Scherer

    1. Institute for Industrial Management and Engineering BWI, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH, Zürich, Switzerland

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  • This book provides a new, realistic view of problems of everyday industrial life

  • It helps the reader to develop holistic and agile solutions to individual problems of job shop scheduling without overstepping financial limits

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Understanding Shop Floor Control — A Close Look at Reality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Reality of Shop Floor Control — Approaches to Systems Innovation

      • Eric Scherer
      Pages 3-26

    3. Control on the Verge of Chaos — Analysis of Dynamic Production Structures

      • Mirko Dobberstein
      Pages 27-65

    4. Rationality, Culture and Politics of Production

      • Manfred Moldaschl
      Pages 67-90

  3. Systems and Organizations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
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    2. Models, Systems and Reality: Knowledge Generation and Strategies for Systems Design

      • Eric Scherer
      Pages 93-125

    3. Systems Concepts and Organizational Design: A Basic Review

      • Julia K. Kuark
      Pages 127-150

  4. Control Strategies for Complex Manufacturing Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
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    2. From Central Planning and Control to Self-Regulation on the Shop Floor

      • Heinz Schüpbach
      Pages 153-171

    3. Systems Models and Concepts for Disributed Production Planning and Control

      • Volker Ahrens
      Pages 173-198

  5. Planning, Scheduling and Control: Aspects of Decision Making

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199
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    2. Approaches to Shop Floor Scheduling — A Critical Review

      • Franz Stuber
      Pages 201-220

    3. The Link to the ‘Real World’: Information, Knowledge and Experience for Decision Making

      • Jürgen Fleig, Robert Schneider
      Pages 221-243

  7. On the Road to Agility: Changing Organizational Structures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 327-327
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About this book

Shop floor control and namely the problem of job shop scheduling have been fields of research for a long time. However, until now no comprehensive framework on the various aspects exists. This book will provide a systems perspective towards shop floor control by stressing its sociotechnical and cybernetical nature. It focuses on the behavioral aspects of control activities and sees the shop floor as the center of value-adding manufacturing activities within an enterprise. The book enables the reader to understand the interaction of organization, information technology and human resources. This eventually allows to achieve holistic and agile solutions and facilitates profound organizational change. The book will therefore provide a welcome addition to several standard textbooks on the issue.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Industrial Management and Engineering BWI, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH, Zürich, Switzerland

    Eric Scherer

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Shop Floor Control - A Systems Perspective

  • Book Subtitle: From Deterministic Models towards Agile Operations Management

  • Editors: Eric Scherer

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60313-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin · Heidelberg 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-64349-1Published: 18 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-60313-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 392

  • Topics: Operations Management, Industrial and Production Engineering

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