Paper Info
Title
Support of opportunities for shopfloor involvement through information and communication technologies
Abstract
More companies are understanding the benefits of designing work to enhance, rather than minimise, the contributions of their employees within human-centred systems. To do this, they require their supportive subsystems (such as training, job, and team design, performance measurement and information) to provide people with the ability, motivation and opportunity to become increasingly involved. Opportunity for involvement will require different communication interfaces, providing data and background information both personally and at the work site or process. In the past few years, the media available for visualisation and communication have become much more numerous and have much greater capabilities. This paper examines the information requirements of certain features of modern manufacturing enterprises—local control, skills, knowledge and training, function allocation and team communications. It then assesses the utility of three broad types of information display—Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), Multimedia/Closed-circuit Television (CCTV) and Virtual Environments (VEs)—for shopfloor systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1007/s00146-003-0250-5
AI Soc.
Keywords
Field
DocType
human-centred manufacturing æ shopfloor information æ personal digital assistant æ virtual environment æ personal display system
Virtual machine,Computer science,Team design,Visualization,Knowledge management,Performance measurement,Function allocation,Information and Communications Technology
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
17
2
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
4
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
John Wilson1173.12
John R. Wilson240948.67