Analysis of Work Methods in Manufacturing Systems Engineering

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Globalisation leading to increased lead-time pressure within engineering departments put demands on efficient human work processes. The trend is towards co-located, cross-functional teams, but also towards geographically dispersed organisations, and collaboration among specialists over not only departmental boundaries, but also across company boundaries. As new possibilities arise to cope with problems regarding integration, new problems emerge from the new work forms. Co-ordination of work in large groups, communication between team members that are unable to meet face-to-face, and the development of efficient overall work methods that permit distributed work in teams are such problems. The need for improved work methods is indisputable, but it takes a thorough knowledge in a number of work method aspects to change existing ways of working. Several management programmes, such as Business Process Reengineering (BPR) and process innovation, builds on the belief that work processes shoul

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