Implications of automation in engineer-to-order production: a case study
| Autor: | Maria Kollberg Thomassen, Erlend Alfnes, Børge Sjøbakk |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Předmět: |
Engineering
Polymers and Plastics business.industry Build to order Mechanical Engineering Norwegian Automation Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Manufacturing engineering language.human_language Variety (cybernetics) Mechanics of Materials Maritime industry Order (business) language Production (economics) business |
| Zdroj: | Advances in Manufacturing. 2:141-149 |
| ISSN: | 2195-3597 2095-3127 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s40436-014-0071-4 |
| Popis: | In order to retain a certain level of production in Norway, suppliers to the Norwegian maritime industry need to lower their production costs. Automation is generally an effective way of achieving this in standardized high-volume, low variety production. However, manufacturing companies in the Norwegian maritime industry typically supply capital-intensive, advanced and customized products in low volumes. In this engineer-to-order production situation, manual labor is traditionally preferred over automation. Nonetheless, such companies increasingly automate parts of their production. This paper presents a case of a supplier that has chosen to automate its welding operations, the implications and determinants of this decision. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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